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Truth Window We helps young adults tell the difference between true news and fake news in the digital era. We guide you to narrow down your sources and encourage you to receive news from neutral and truthful sources. We help you to find news and information from media sources with minimal partisan bias. We know it can be confusing when you read news on Facebook, so we also offer a Facebook plu g-in that helps you figure out the political bias of news sources and the truth or falsehood of specific stories. We hope discerning the facts and fictions of news stories becomes a key cognitive ability in today’s digital news world.
What is Fake News? William Brockman, a librarian from Penn State University said that fake news is the sources that intentionally fabricate information, disseminate deceptive content, or grossly distort actual news reports. • Intentional Deception • Jokes taken at face value • Large-scale hoaxes • Slanted reporting of real facts • Stories where the ‘truth’ is contentious Source: Penn State University
“We Live in a time of fake news—things that are made up and manufactured.” —Neil Portnow, President of the Recording Academy
Why should you care? Why should you care about whether or not your news is real or fake? You deserve the truth. You are smart enough to make up your own mind-as long as you have the real facts in front of you. You have every right to be insulted when you read fake news, because you are in essence being treated like an idiot. Fake news destroys your credibility. If your arguments are built on bad information, it will be much more difficult for people to believe you in the future. Fake news can hurt you, and a lot of other people. Purveyors of fake and misleading medical advice like Mercola.com and NaturalNews.com help perpetuate myths like HIV and AIDS aren’t related, or that vaccines cause autism. These sites are heavily visited and their lies are dangerous. Real news can benefit you. If you want to buy stock in a company, you want to read accurate articles about that company so you can invest wisely. If you are planning on voting in an election, you want to read valid and factual information on a candidate so you can vote for the person who best represents your ideas and beliefs. Fake news will not help you make money or make the world a better place, but real news can. Source: Benedictine University Library
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“More than 30% of students thought a fake Fox News account was more trustworthy than the real one.” —Camila Domonoske, npr
Can you tell fake news from real? Most college students didn’t suspect potential bias in a tweet from an activist group. The researchers sent undergraduate students a link to a tweet by MoveOn about gun owners’ feelings on background checks, citing a survey by Public Policy Polling. They asked students to evaluate the tweet and say why it might or might not be a good data source. “Only a few students noted that the tweet was based on a poll conducted by a professional polling firm,” which might make it a good source, the researchers wrote. At the same time, less than a third of students cited the political agenda of MoveOn.org as a reason it might be a flawed source. And more than half of the students didn’t even click on the link within the tweet before evaluating the usefulness of the data. Source: Camila Domonoske, npr
How fake does real harm? Stephanie Busari’s claim that fake news is detrimental to solving real world issues is true and valid. Busari uses an anecdote chocked full of pathos--an anecdote about a girl named Hadiza who was kidnapped by terrorists, but later escaped. The point of bringing up the story of Hadiza is to establish that the story had actually happened, and wasn’t a hoax--unlike what the Nigerian government had to say about kidnappings in Nigeria. When questioned, the Nigerian government claimed that the kidnappings were a hoax. Busari uses this to her advantage by showing that pushing the narrative that the kidnappings were a hoax helped to delay the aid of the kidnapped girls. However, this is a hasty generalization by Busari, as money and resources could have also been a factor is delaying rescue, not just the hoax narrative—however, that did greatly contribute as well. Source: Stephanie Busari, TEDLagos Ideas Search
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