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How would you define "Literacy"?
a person's knowledge of a particular subject or field: to acquire computer literacy;improving your financial literacy.
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Conciousness
alertness, awareness, sensibility, ...
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A type of journalism that consists of deliberate misinformation or hoaxes spread via as forms of news media. It's written and published with the intent to mislead in order to gain financially or politically. Often with sensational and false headlines that grab attention.
Fake News
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Edgar Welch
That's the 28-year-old man from North Carolina who decided to "self-investigate" and drove to a pizzeria to liberate the children he believed were being held in the basement.
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unreliable
trustworthy, accurate
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Internet-savvy
A person who knows a lot about the internet and how it works and how to use the internet according to his need other than just surfing, downloading and sharing.
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Bogus
false, simulated, ...
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the action of making generally known; a calling to the attention of the public An often paid announcement in newspapers or magazines, on radio or television, etc.
Advertisement
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James Barron
Author of the New York Times article "In an Era of Fake News, Teaching Students to Parse Fact From Fiction" American journalist
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reality
fantasy, imagination
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model citizen
A person others look up to as a good example to follow due to his behaviour, success...
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to ferret out
search out, uncover, bring to light, ...
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The act of a D.I.Y. approach to fact-finding and truth-checking as a result of not trusting and abandoning traditional sources of information like the government or institutional media
Self-investigation
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Joseph Farah
Right-wing extremist and self-described ex-Communist runs a Website called "WorldNetDaily", which calls itself "America's Independent News Network" Spreads theories like "gay men orchestrated the Holocaust" or "Obama might have been born outside of the United States"
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amateur
professional
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morass of disinformation
A soft, wet ground one could sink in, in this context a flow of disinformation from which it is difficult to free oneself
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Distinction
Contrast, difference, separation, ...
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something invented or imagined; a made-up story the class of literature comprising works of imaginative narration, especially in prose form.
Fiction
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Howard Schneider
Dean of the Stony Brook School of Journalism and a former editor of the Long Island newspaper Newsday. Has been "fighting" fake news and teaching students how to do so since 2007
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Forgery
Original
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forgery
a crime where a writing is falsely made oder altered thus affecting the legal rights or obligations of another person
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Discernible
apparent, detectable, observable, ...
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To give up on something and leave it
to abandon
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Jonathan Mahler
NY Times Reporter, wrote the article "The Problem With "Self-Investigation" in a Post-Truth Era
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uselessness, ineffectiveness
validity