Types of Fake News
A video or photo that has been manipulated to make it look like someone is saying or doing something they never actually did.
What is a Deep Fake?
True or False: Real news is usually pretty boring, while fake news is often dramatic or sensational.
What is True?
The Pacific Northwest creature featured on a fake internet site created in 1998 by Lyle Zapato.
What is the Tree Octopus?
The definition of your "Digital Footprint".
What is any information about you online?
The general rule of thumb when you are being attacked or treated unfairly online.
What is stay positive and do not retaliate?
Information, often exaggerated or biased, shared to mislead people and win over support using a polarized point of view.
What is Propaganda?
Headline punctuation that should raise a major red flag when reading an online article.
What are ALL CAPS or excessive exclamation points (!!!!)?
Visual clues that revealed an image was created by AI: eyes merging into glasses, a missing chain, and a hand not actually holding this object.
What is a cup?
The concept that what you post online today becomes part of your permanent online history.
hat is your Digital Legacy?
The best action to take if you need proof of online harassment or evidence to show an adult later.
What is take a screenshot?
The intentional use of misinformation with the express intention of deceiving people and getting them to act a certain way, like the 2009 "Balloon Boy" story.
What is a Hoax?
Two things you should check about the article's source to see if it can be trusted.
What are if the date is recent, if an author's name is attached, or if it links to other reputable sources?
The website "Incredible Egg" (American Egg Board) is a real site, but visitors should be aware that it shows this.
What is bias?
The main reason you should be careful sending private pictures to friends.
What is anyone can save or screenshot a picture and keep it forever?
Someone who creates a false online identity to trick others.
What is a Catfish?
Made-up, sensational information presented as true, designed to worry or scare people (such as a fake story about banning pizza)
What is Fabrication?
A clue in a web address (URL) that showed a site pretending to be ABC News was actually fake.
What is a strange domain extension (like ".com.co")?
The photo of two 59-foot-tall rubber ducks in Hong Kong harbor was real and created by an artist from this country.
What is the Netherlands (artist Florentijn Hofman)?
The embedded location data attached to photos you take before they are uploaded or shared.
What are Geotags (or metadata)?
A helpful tool you can use to check if an online profile picture is real or stolen from somewhere else on the web.
What is Google Images (Reverse Image Search)?
The general definition of "Fake News".
What is misleading information (disinformation, propaganda, hoaxes) presented as news to hurt someone's reputation or convince people to think a certain way?
Name two emotional or stylistic warning signs that an article is trying to manipulate you.
What are causing an intense emotional reaction, designed for easy sharing, or claiming to tell a "secret" the media/government doesn't want you to know?
The fake news story claiming an Executive Order banned the Pledge of Allegiance was blamed on this former U.S. President.
Who is Barack Obama?
Name two things in the background of a photo that could accidentally reveal where you live or go to school.
What are street signs, landmarks, or clothes with school logos?
A supportive action you can take to help someone being harassed online, even if you don't want to post publicly.
What is sending them a private message?