Misinformation Types
Misinformation that is entirely made up and is designed to deceive you into thinking that it’s real
What is Fabricated Content?
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?
Information that amuses, pleases, relaxes or distracts you
What is Entertainment?
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
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?
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?
Types of faulty reasoning that seem to make a point but don’t, and render an argument questionable or invalid
What is Logical Fallacies?
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?
A negative effect of social media Algorithms that creates division between two sharply contrasting groups or sets of opinions or beliefs
What is Polarization?
A statement that can be verified or shown to be true. Facts are the basis for credible news reports
What is Fact?
A piece of information that uses humor or exaggeration to critique or mock a person, organization or policy
What is Satire?
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?
Information that provokes you — often by using false or distorted information to manipulate your emotions
What is Propaganda?
Data transferred across the functional interface between a source user and a telecommunications system for delivery to a destination user
What is User Information?
Proof or confirmation of factual accuracy
What is Verification?
Misinformation that is deliberately created to be false, usually to achieve a desired ideological or political result
What is Disinformation?
A logical fallacy in which an either/or proposition is set up when there are actually more options available
What is a False Dilemma?
Information that documents an event or trend. It has not been analyzed, checked, edited, explained or placed in any context
What is Raw Information?
The tendency to interpret new evidence as confirmation of one's existing beliefs or theories
What is Confirmation Bias?
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?
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?
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?
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?
The practice of analyzing large databases in order to generate new information
What is Data Mining?
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?