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Media Literacy in a World of
Memes and Fake News
Pizza-gate
How Fake News Goes Viral: A Case Study
https://goo.gl/basyuW
Conjunction Fallacy:
We are more susceptible to believing untrue stories if they are more elaborate and specific.
Fake News is not New
Fake News isn’t new
Spin and Misinformation
If fake news is not new...
...what has changed ?
64 percent of Americans get their news from just one social media site, with Facebook being the most common platform for news.
News Use Across Social Media Platforms 2016, Pew Research Center, May 26 2016
Our “digital natives” may be able to flit between Facebook and Twitter while simultaneously uploading a selfie to Instagram and texting a friend.
But when it comes to evaluating information that flows through social media channels, they are easily duped.
EVALUATING INFORMATION: THE CORNERSTONE OF CIVIC ONLINE REASONING, Stanford History Group, Nov, 2 2016
Fully 45% of U.S. adults say government, politicians and elected officials bear a great deal of responsibility for preventing made-up stories from gaining attention,
Many Americans Believe Fake News Is Sowing Confusion, Pew Research Center, December 15, 2016
More than 80 percent of middle schoolers believed that 'sponsored content' was a real news story.
EVALUATING INFORMATION: THE CORNERSTONE OF CIVIC ONLINE REASONING, Stanford History Group, Nov, 2 2016
At present, we worry that democracy is threatened by the ease at which disinformation about civic issues is allowed to spread and flourish.
EVALUATING INFORMATION: THE CORNERSTONE OF CIVIC ONLINE REASONING, Stanford History Group, Nov, 2 2016
Digital Citizenship
Informational Citizenship
How to Spot Fake News (and Teach Kids to Be Media-Savvy) Via Common Sense Media
● Who made this?● Who is the target audience?● Who paid for this? Or, who gets paid if you click on this?● Who might benefit or be harmed by this message?● What is left out of this message that might be
important?● Is this credible (and what makes you think that)?
How to Spot Fake News (and Teach Kids to Be Media-Savvy), Sierra Filucci
Challenge
Go to Allsides.com
Check the perspective of your favorite news sources.
Go to the BIAS page and RATE them.
ChallengeGo to the www.politifact.com
Go to the truth o meter page
check any three political figure for their overall ratings.
https://goo.gl/gBX4Ry
Verify Rumors, Memes and Urban Legends
Partisan Fact Checking
monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.
NewsBusters plays a leading role in both short-term outrages and long-term trends in liberal media tilt.
Create Verified, Curated Searches
Challenge
Create a Custom Search Engine
Verify the Truthfulness of Images
Google Jigsaw
We have never been better equipped, or had more tools
at our disposal...
To verify if we choose to...