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Deciphering Fake News What Should We Be Worried About? Stephanie Willen Brown Director, Park Library @ UNC’s School of Media & Journalism Image from https://thenounproject.com/term/journalist/813630/
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Deciphering Fake News What Should We Be Worried About?Stephanie Willen BrownDirector, Park Library @ UNC’s School of Media & Journalism

Image from https://thenounproject.com/term/journalist/813630/

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What Are We Talking About?HoaxPropaganda

Disinformation / Disinformatzya / Dezinformatsiadezinformatsiya

Conspiracy

Fake News * Lügenpresse * Truthful Hyperbole *

Manipulated Content *

False Connection*

False Context *SatireMistakes

* Not defined in any Oxford dictionaries, as of March 29, 2017

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What’s the Problem?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/ct-social-media-fake-news-20141202-column.html

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We’re all susceptible

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What is the Solution?

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How to Teach This?• Politically neutral

• Active learning activity (or several)

Images from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_states_and_blue_states https://www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/projects/learner-experiences-of-technology

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Does this photo provide strong evidence about the conditions near the Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant? Explain your reasoning.

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AllSides.com

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Resources• Brown, Stephanie W. “Checking Facts.” UNC School

of Media & Journalism, March 31, 2017. http://guides.lib.unc.edu/mejo153/checkingFacts • Further resources on overcoming fake news• Lesson plans• Recommended fact checking sites• Sources for this presentation