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Fake News, Alternative Facts, and Misinformation

Activities

The Exercise: Your job is to fact-check the content, evaluate the author's background in the subject he/she writes about, and determine the journalistic standards, values, ethics, or guidelines used by the source. Can you find a standard of commitment to journalistic integrity in these news sources?

     American women are 50 percent more likely to die from pregnancy than their mothers were
 
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    Ukraine to ask Turkey to close the Bosphorus Strait to Russian ships amid Ukraine-Russia conflict
 

5. EWG Children's Health Initiative

     Is this article a good source of information about the dangers of pesticides in cereal?

Credit: Links to articles are from Snopes and FourMoves 

Can you distinguish fake social media accounts from real ones? Clemson University's Media Forensics Hub has designed a new online quiz called Spot the Troll, in which users can examine images of real social media content and decide whether it's from a legitimate account or an internet troll.

Test your skills HERE