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Share a Fake News headline you found during your research and tell us how you deduced that it was fake.

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Share a Fake News headline you found during your research and tell us how you deduced that it was fake.

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Add your post in the comments.

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This is another online quiz (optional) that will allow you to test your skills to identify whether the profiles are used for trolling (note a "troll" is "a fake social media account, often created to spread misleading information.")

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A troll is a fake social media account, often created to spread misleading information.

Each of the following 8 profiles include a brief selection of posts from a single social media account. You decide if each is an authentic account or a professional troll. After each profile, you'll review the signs that can help you determine if it's a troll or not.

Click Profile 1 to get started, or visit the sections below to learn more.

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Welcome to the Spot the Troll Disinformation Quiz

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Each of the following 8 profiles include a brief selection of posts from a single social media account. You decide if each is an authentic account or a professional troll. After each profile, you'll review the signs that can help you determine if it's a troll or not.

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Take the Fake News Identification Quiz and use your new knowledge to determine if each story is true, fake news, or if you can't tell!

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Click through the attached examples of Fake News and websites that have been compiled of Fake News sources.

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Research Guides: Fake News: Develop Your Fact-Checking Skills: Examples of Fake News

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Research Guides: Fake News: Develop Your Fact-Checking Skills: Examples of Fake News

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Look at the attached CRAAP test document created by Ms. DeGrace to learn simple steps to go through when evaluating an information source. Join to fight in combating Fake news!

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Look at the "Fight Fake News Section" of Loyal Marymouth University's LibGuide on Fake news. (Note there is also a "Tools for Verifying Section that would be good to look through also!)

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Here are 6 ways you can make a difference NOW by evaluating and engaging.

1. Think before you share. Read the entire piece before you decide whether or not to share.

2. Verify an unlikely story. Check out some of the tools listed below.

3. Install B.S. Detector, a browser extension that identifies stories from sites that produce clickbait, fake news, and other suspect stories.

5. Rethink your news diet. Expand your information network to include diverse perspectives from quality sources.

The bedrock method of deconstruction: Each source in a news report is evaluated using the "IMVAIN" rubric and you can to:

Independent sources are preferable to self-interested sources.

Multiple sources are preferable to a report based on a single source.

Sources who Verify or provide verifiable information are preferable to those who merely assert.

Authoritative and/or Informed sources are preferable to sources who are uninformed or lack authoritative background.

Named sources are better than anonymous ones.

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LibGuides: Keepin' It Real: Tips & Strategies for Evaluating Fake News: Fake News

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Listen to Hannah Logue speak about the sensationalization of Fake News and how to identify it.

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How to Spot Fake News | Hannah Logue | TEDxYouth@Lancaster

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Understand key terms and phrases to help you sift through and identify Fake News sources.

Source: BBC. Bitsize. (n.d.). Fake news Glossary: Top key words to know. Retrieved from https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zf89vwx

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Look through the University of Michigan's LibGuide to discover what Fake News is, where it comes from, and more!

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Research Guides: "Fake News," Lies and Propaganda: How to Sort Fact from Fiction: What is "Fake News"?

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Research Guides: "Fake News," Lies and Propaganda: How to Sort Fact from Fiction: What is "Fake News"?

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To spot Fake News, remember to look at where the information is coming from, who is writing it and what sources they are using, consider the date it was written and any biases that might need to be taken into consideration. Check out the attached Infographic for more tricks to identify and understand fake news.

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1. Define Fake News
2. Identify different types of Fake News and keywords used to describe them
3. Discover what you can do to fight Fake News
4. Read some examples of Fake News
5. Take the Fake News Identification Quiz
6. Share a Fake News Headline you have come across and write a quick comment on how you identified that it is Fake News