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Spotting Propaganda
Tactics incorporated in News
Is it Real or Fake?
News Facts
Fake News
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a form of argument meant to further a special-interest cause through manipulation.

What is Propaganda?

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Information that is often exaggerated, either false or not, and spread for the purpose of benefiting or promoting a specific individual or cause.
What is Propaganda.
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A bunch of teens in a small town in _________ made thousands of dollars sending fake news out on the 'net. Scholars have stated that these teens may have affected the outcome of the 2016 Presidential election.
What is teens in Macedonia. This is a TRUE story.
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The number one social media site where fake news is spread.
What is Facebook.
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false information created to make money or entertain

What is fake news?

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First, you should always examine the motives of the speaker or the writer of the information.

How do you Spot Propaganda?

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This term, means withholding all or some of the news from the potential readers, in order to get readers.
What is Clickbait.
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There should be a “contact us” section include in most news sites, i.e. an email address that matches the domain (not a Gmail or Yahoo email address)
What is TRUE.
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The ___________ printing press launched a communications revolution that altered how media is received down till today.
What is the Gutenberg printing press.
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tries to persuade people to buy something

What is advertising?

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explaining a complex event by saying it only had one cause

What is Causal Oversimplification?

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Newspapers and other communication media that openly supports a political party and whose news follows the party line.
What is Partisan press/journalism.
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FactCheck.org, Snopes.com, and PolitiFact.com are examples of....
What is Credible fact checking sites to consult when determining if a source or article are credible.
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This percentage of the world is considered to have freedom of press.
What is 1/3 of the world.
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1.Relying on emotion instead of logical evidence 2.Introduction irrelevant or unproven evidence 3.Attacking a person instead of a principle 4.Suppressing evidence 5.Oversimplifying and distorting 6.Internal Inconsistency

What are the 6 characteristics of Fake News?

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viewing things as black or white when it is much more complex.

What is Drawing the line?

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These social media networks have created applications aimed a debunking fake news stories before they are posted.
What is Facebook and Twitter.
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A Buddhist Monk Charged With Stashing 4 Million Meth Pills in Monastery
What is REAL News. An anti-drug task force found 400,000 pills in the monk's car. A subsequent search of his monastery turned up 4.2 million pills — worth upwards of $4 million in street value — along with a grenade and ammunition.
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The number one satirical/fake news site.
What is The Onion.
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used to promote a person or cause

What is publicity?

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when two things happen at the same time and we assume that one is the cause of another.

What is Concurrency?

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facts or statistics have not been interpreted.

What is raw information?