Fact-Checking
What are the three big questions every fact-checker must ask?
Who is behind the information?
What is the evidence?
What are other sources saying?
This communications theorist envisioned the coming Internet to be a place of unity more so than a place of division.
McLuhan
This is a website that is meant to look like a legit news website; but, in fact, it not legit.
Pink slime
In the standard format of local television news, the background is often the color ____.
Blue
This is the president of Ukraine.
Volodomry Zelensky
To locate the time of a given image.
Chronolocate
Today's communication model has prompted an increase in traffic and ____ of traffic.
Directions
Making it appear as if someone has said or done something they did not actually say or do.
Manipulated content.
To be a skeptic requires one to have what type of system?
This person took control of Russia in the early 90s and gained the trust of the people.
Putin
This tool can help a fact-checker "deduplicate" a photo that is circulating through social media.
Reverse-image search
(OR TinEye)
What is the name of Facebook's parent company?
Meta
Social media account: Dry Alabama
Fake account
A phenomenon wherein which one believes the media influences everyone but themselves.
Third-person effect.
This is an online organization that uses crowdsourced intelligence from social media platforms to fact-check information related to authoritarian governments.
Bellingcat
This Wikipedia feature is what makes Wikipedia so valuable.
References
In general, what types of products are Big Tech HARDWARE companies currently competing for?
Headsets
Controllers
A video clip claiming to show Russian helicopters airlifting tanks into Ukraine. When fact-checked, the helicopters were not Russian, nor were they a part of the conflict in Ukraine.
Content out of context.
Journalism may contain some ____, but may not (or should not) include false information.
Putin banned news outlets in Russia from using the word ___ when covering the events in Ukraine.
Invasion
This practice helps to expand one's search and, therefore, understanding beyond what one source is saying.
Lateral reading
In general, what TWO products are some Big Tech SOFTWARE companies currently competing for?
Underlying platform dominance
User privacy dominance
Some consumers find this type of misinformation hard to identify because it blends truths and falsehoods with humor.
Satire
The media's role in perpetuating stereotypes has resulted in the following three issues:
Common
Reinforcing
Limiting
Putin looks to [this country] as a model for controlling information.
China