Misinformation Types
Arguments & Evidence
Information Types
Algorithms
Journalism
100

Misinformation that is entirely made up and is designed to deceive you into thinking that it’s real

What is Fabricated Content?

100

Prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair

What is Bias?

100

Information that amuses, pleases, relaxes or distracts you

What is Entertainment?

100

A self-contained online world where what you encounter is shaped, customized and personalized for you based on what algorithms think you want to find

What is a Filter Bubble

100

In journalism, the people, organizations, documents and other providers of background information that journalists use as the basis of their reporting

What is a Source?

200

Misinformation that falsely uses a well-known name, brand or logo to fool people into believing that it is authentic content

What is Imposter Content?

200

Types of faulty reasoning that seem to make a point but don’t, and render an argument questionable or invalid

What is Logical Fallacies?

200

Information that informs you, through fair and impartial reporting, about local, national and international events, issues and people of significance or of interest

What is News?

200

A negative effect of social media Algorithms that creates division between two sharply contrasting groups or sets of opinions or beliefs

What is Polarization?

200

A statement that can be verified or shown to be true. Facts are the basis for credible news reports

What is Fact?

300

A piece of information that uses humor or exaggeration to critique or mock a person, organization or policy

What is Satire?

300

An argument that makes the claim that a relatively small first step will set off a chain reaction leading to disastrous, unavoidable results

What is Slippery Slope?

300

Information that provokes you — often by using false or distorted information to manipulate your emotions

What is Propaganda?

300

Data transferred across the functional interface between a source user and a telecommunications system for delivery to a destination user

What is User Information?

300

Proof or confirmation of factual accuracy

What is Verification?

400

Misinformation that is deliberately created to be false, usually to achieve a desired ideological or political result

What is Disinformation?

400

A logical fallacy in which an either/or proposition is set up when there are actually more options available

What is a False Dilemma?

400

Information that documents an event or trend. It has not been analyzed, checked, edited, explained or placed in any context

What is Raw Information?

400

The tendency to interpret new evidence as confirmation of one's existing beliefs or theories

What is Confirmation Bias?

400

In journalism, a standard that calls for journalists to approach their reporting in an honest, accurate way — without allowing their own biases to interfere

What is Fairness?

500

Misinformation in which something is altered from the original, such as images that have had content added or removed using photo editing tools

What is Manipulated Content?

500

A logical fallacy that is used when someone appears to be refuting or knocking down an argument when, in fact, they are refuting an argument that is easy to knock down, but doesn’t accurately represent the other side

What is a Straw man argument?

500

Information that persuades you, ideally through the use of fact-based evidence, to adopt a specific point of view about an issue or event

What is Opinion?

500

The practice of analyzing large databases in order to generate new information

What is Data Mining?

500

Checking or investigating. In journalism, this means internally double- or triple-checking everything in a news report for accuracy, fairness and context

What is Vetting?

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