This guide will help you become a responsible consumer of news and show you how to evaluate fake news sources vs. real news sources.

      Fake news social media

Think Before You Share

Helpful advice about sharing online news stories from Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers by Michael Arthur Caulfield:

Building a Fact-Checking Habit by Checking Your Emotions

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Are You For Real?

Fake tweet from Barack  Obama saying Librarians Rock

Fake tweet from Donald Trump  saying Mushu is the best pug ever and that's not fake news

It's shockingly easy to create fake social media messages. It would only take some light editing to remove the tweeterino watermark and we'd have a bona fide fake news story on our hands. 

 

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