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Five ways to spot fake news

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    We all have to become digital detectives
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    The first is:
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    Where is this information coming from?
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    A lot of fake news sites,
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    try to create a URL which is similar to
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    a URL of a publication that you might know
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    or you might be familiar with.
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    Ultimately, the best way to understand
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    wheter or not a site is trustworthy
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    is to actually read the content on the site
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    not just one article on it
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    but other articles and see:
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    do they meet the standards
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    of quality journalism?
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    If it makes you really angry,
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    or really sad,
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    or it makes you burst out laughing,
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    that's actually a red flag to you,
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    because is kinda short circuiting
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    your logic center
    or your ability to think.
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    I can look up the author of that article,
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    I can see the other things
    they've written.
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    Is there an author of the article?
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    Because, that's an importante tip
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    in helping us figure out
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    wheter or not this piece of information
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    is actually real and trustworthy.
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    If i read something that says:
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    "Scientists say that
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    chocolate cake makes you smarter".
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    Well, what scientists?
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    and, what exactly did they say?
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    One of the ways
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    in which rumors spread is
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    that a lot of people
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    keep repeating the same information,
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    but nobody has verified it.
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    So, journalists depend on
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    high quality sources.
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    So, experts
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    how did you come across
    this information?
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    How do you know
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    that this information is true?
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    Someone takes that photo
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    that's maybe 3 years ago and say,
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    "This is happening right now".
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    We saw a lot of that
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    during recent hurricanes
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    Using a reverse image search
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    on Google
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    can tell you where that image
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    has appeared before and
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    who has shared it.
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    That can give you important tips
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    as to whether or not
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    the image is original,
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    whether or not the image is
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    in its original context.
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    This is what we have to do
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    we try to drill down a little bit deeper
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    than that first tweet
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    that tells you that chocolate cake
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    makes you smarter.
Title:
Five ways to spot fake news
Description:

The News Literacy Project teaches children how to evaluate the credibility of information they get online.

Here are five tips on how to spot fake news from Damaso Reyes, one of the project's directors who's taught dozens of new literacy classes.

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Video Language:
English
Team:
Amplifying Voices
Project:
Misinformation and Disinformation
Duration:
03:10

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