Fake News - STUDENTS' ANSWERS by Lucinda M Bento https://padlet.com/lucindabento/bze01pwkgpst Write your answers in note form Click on the wall to start writing. Identify yourselves in the title area. en-us 2018-01-30 08:14:11 UTC 2025-10-09 12:09:56 UTC hello@padlet.com Catarina, Afonso, Maria Inês Alves https://padlet.com/lucindabento/bze01pwkgpst/wish/225973158  A. Fake news are information disguised as a credible news source. This acceptance of incorrect information has led to confusion, panic, and an inability to discuss the actual facts surrounding current events.
B.  A seven year old girl look at a picture that showed Trump writing his inaugural speech with his pen turned upside down and she really believed that the picture was real but her father quickly pointed out the mistake and she got an on-the-spot education in fake news.
C.  A fake news article is designed to outrage and shock. Sharing the article exposes it to more people who may be outraged by it.
D. We have to check sources, dates, the message behind the headline, the person who wrote that and make sure that everything is credible.



 
]]> 2018-01-30 08:41:24 UTC https://padlet.com/lucindabento/bze01pwkgpst/wish/225973158 https://padlet.com/lucindabento/bze01pwkgpst/wish/225973246 2018-01-30 08:41:45 UTC https://padlet.com/lucindabento/bze01pwkgpst/wish/225973246 https://padlet.com/lucindabento/bze01pwkgpst/wish/225973266 2018-01-30 08:41:49 UTC https://padlet.com/lucindabento/bze01pwkgpst/wish/225973266 José Silva, Carolina Cruz, Maria Luís https://padlet.com/lucindabento/bze01pwkgpst/wish/225973309 A) Fake news are any article or video containing untrue information disguised as a credible news source.  A fake news article is designed to outrage and shock, causing some readers to share it on social media without questioning it. This cycle continues until a sizeable number of people believe this fake story is the truth. 
B) "More than 80 percent of middle schoolers believed that 'sponsored content' was a real news story."
C) Social media are amplifying the impact of misinformation. 
D)  1. Start by asking some basic questions: Is this story making me angry? Am I hoping this story is true? 
      2. People should think about where they found each story they read. If someone shared a story with you on social media, do you know where it was published first? Is it from a talk-radio show? A gossip site? An online newspaper? 
      3. Analyze the pictures. A photo is often the first thing that draws you to a story — so don’t forget to ask critical questions about images.
      4. Use professional tools. If you can’t find the answers to these questions, search for your story on fact-checking sites to see if it’s been reported as fake. 

]]> 2018-01-30 08:41:57 UTC https://padlet.com/lucindabento/bze01pwkgpst/wish/225973309 Bárbara Matos nº6 ,Beatriz Pires nº7 & Joana Lúcio nº14 https://padlet.com/lucindabento/bze01pwkgpst/wish/225973519 a.  Fake news is any article or video containing untrue information disguised as a credible news source. Misinformation can lead   to confusion, panic, and an inability to discuss the actual facts.
b. "Most students could identify the traditional ad, but more than 80% of them believed that the "sponsored content" article was a real news story."
c. Technology and  most of all social media helped spreading it.
d.  1Get a second opinion from a credible news site with verifiable sources ;
    2 Check the dates and the sources;
    3 Take a look at the headlines of other stories from the same website;
CONCLUSION: If so, question the website’s practices. 
]]> 2018-01-30 08:42:44 UTC https://padlet.com/lucindabento/bze01pwkgpst/wish/225973519 João Marques nº15, Mariana Soares nº24, Noémia Cá nº25 https://padlet.com/lucindabento/bze01pwkgpst/wish/225973660 A) untrue information; Sharing the article on social media, this cycle continues until a sizeable number of people believe this fake story is the truth.
B) students accept photographs as presented, without verifying them;
C) Technology helped fake news;   to stop it, technology is developing tools and algorithms to counter the corrosive influence of misinformation.
D) check sources and make sure they’re trying to tell the truth. they might put it all in caps. They use photoshop. The tittles doesn't correspond the news and they use exclamation points]]> 2018-01-30 08:43:18 UTC https://padlet.com/lucindabento/bze01pwkgpst/wish/225973660 Maria Galhano, Mª Inês Santos https://padlet.com/lucindabento/bze01pwkgpst/wish/225973715 a) untrue and not credible information, bogus and sensationalized stories; It can led to confusion, panic and inability to select the real information, great deal of misinformation, ill-informed people, school and work projects whith wrong information;

b) the researchers were "shocked" by how many students failed to effectively evaluate the credibility of that information;  "Only a quarter of the students recognized and explained the significance of the blue checkmark 
 
c) Internet and social media;

d) Comparing other sites information, check the dates, find the source, check website's appearance , headlines of other stories, Does the story use all capital letters or a lot of exclamation points?, check the author's name, analyze the pictures]]> 2018-01-30 08:43:31 UTC https://padlet.com/lucindabento/bze01pwkgpst/wish/225973715 Ricardo Figueiredo, Victória Figueiredo, Ana https://padlet.com/lucindabento/bze01pwkgpst/wish/225974290 A) Fake news is any article or video containing untrue information disguised as a credible news source.

B) Teens can’t tell the difference between real news and certain types of ads.
The photo showed Trump writing his inaugural speech — with his pen turned upside down.
Of course, the image was not the original photograph. It had been Photoshopped to look like Trump was using the pen the wrong way. The girl’s dad quickly pointed out the mistake, and she got an on-the-spot education in fake news.

C) Some readers share it on Facebook, Twitter, or another type of social media without questioning it. This cycle continues until a sizeable number of people believe this fake story is the truth.

D)
-You can confirm information at fact-checking sites. 
The use of capital letters or a lot of exclamation points makes suspect about the credibility of the new. 


]]> 2018-01-30 08:45:35 UTC https://padlet.com/lucindabento/bze01pwkgpst/wish/225974290 Filipa Oliveira, Gabriela Henriques e Guilherme Guerra https://padlet.com/lucindabento/bze01pwkgpst/wish/225974671  A) Fake news is an article which contains untrue information that looks like credible and can also manipulate us.
 B)"In exercise after exercise, the researchers were "shocked" — their word, not ours — by how many students failed to effectively evaluate the credibility of that information;
 The students displayed a "stunning and dismaying consistency" in their responses, the researchers wrote, getting duped again and again;"
C) Technology and mostly social media.
D)  - The use of  capital letters or a lot of exclamation points makes suspect about the credibility of the new;  The website’s professional/clean look; 

     - We should check the URL  of a website cause it might seem a legitimate news outlet, even when it's not; We should also analyse pictures   and check the dates  involved in the article; Find the source of the author’s information for the article;  Take a look at the headlines of other stories from the same website. Check the people who are behind the website ("about us").


]]> 2018-01-30 08:46:53 UTC https://padlet.com/lucindabento/bze01pwkgpst/wish/225974671 Sérgio and Tatiana https://padlet.com/lucindabento/bze01pwkgpst/wish/225974706 A) Fake news is an article or video with untrue informartion disguised as a credible and true news source
B)" Many high school students couldn't tell a real and fake news source apart "
 "Most students could identify the traditional ad, but more than 80 percent of them believed that the "sponsored content" article was a real news story. "
C) Fake news are easily spread because of social media and the advance of technology.
D)We can tell them apart by finding where the information came from , to find if the author is credible and you can also use profesional tools to help you.]]> 2018-01-30 08:47:02 UTC https://padlet.com/lucindabento/bze01pwkgpst/wish/225974706 António Ricardo, Carolina Carvalho, Maria Vieira https://padlet.com/lucindabento/bze01pwkgpst/wish/225976157 A) Fake news is any article or video containing untrue information disguised as a credible news source. This acceptance of incorrect information has led to confusion, panic, and an inability to discuss the actual facts surrounding current events.
B)  Most students could identify the traditional ad, but more than 80 percent of them believed that the "sponsored content" article was a real news story.
More than 30 percent of students thought a fake Fox News account was more trustworthy than the real one.
C)  Sharing the article exposes it to more people who may be outraged by it, who also share it without question, and so on. This cycle continues until a sizeable number of people believe this fake story is the truth.
D) Is the story, or the home page of the publication, trying to sell anything or is it trying to affect you emotionally? If so, this story really may be an ad.
Check if the story include the author’s name and if you can find it anywhere else.]]> 2018-01-30 08:52:25 UTC https://padlet.com/lucindabento/bze01pwkgpst/wish/225976157 https://padlet.com/lucindabento/bze01pwkgpst/wish/225985962 2018-01-30 09:27:12 UTC https://padlet.com/lucindabento/bze01pwkgpst/wish/225985962