Social Media
Media Literacy Tools
Wikipedia
100

This platform is the most popular social media website used today. 

What is Facebook?

100

This practice revolves around examining the claim of a particular piece of information by researching it from different sources

What is lateral reading?

100
By practicing ____________ , people on Wikipedia can perceive and detect how edits have taken place over time as well as actions taken by editors and administrators on a given page.

What is transparency?

200

These social media platforms have teamed up with fact checkers to help stop spread misinformation

What is Facebook and Twitter?

200

This is the first question we should ask our selves and looking at a questionable piece of information

What is "Who is behind the information?"

200

This feature acts as a warning at the top of the article to let the reader know something might be off about the article

What is a Note?

300

Social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram attached these to dubious posts that might be mistaken for the truth

What is a warning?

300

If you're reading something online and the writer is making a bunch of claims about a given topic, what's something we should be asking ourselves?

What is "What's the evidence?"

300

This tool allows administrators on Wikipedia to stop users from editing a specific page or article

What is locking?

400

This feature allows people on social media platforms to tag their posts to make them easier for other users to search for them. 

What is a hashtag?

400

After we've read something online and we want to verify if it's true or not, what should we be thinking?

What is "What do other sources say?"

400

By clicking on the tabs at the top of the Wikipedia articles you're able to see these different features relating to how the article was written

Edit, History, or Talk

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