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5. Is the topic the headline is based on important? Worth understanding more deeply?
6. Who would this content seem to benefit if accepted as ‘true’? Note, this doesn’t mean it’s ‘fake’ but
understanding who benefits from changing perceptions is an important ‘fake news’ detecting tool.
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7. Is this information, angle, or ‘take’ new or something that’s been said before (and either fact-checked or
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20 Questions To Help Students Think 8. Is the data (fact-based) or position (opinion-based) inherent in the headline shared by other credible
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9. What background information would I need to be able to evaluate its credibility? Where can I get more
information on the topics in the headline to better evaluate its credibility?
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For the second set of questions to think critically about news headlines, we’re turning to
12 Things Every Modern thenewsliteracyproject.org, a media standards project that created a set of questions to help students think
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11. Gauge your emotional reaction. Is it strong? Are you angry? Are you intensely hoping that the
information turns out to be true or false?
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12. Reflect on how you encountered this. Was it promoted on a website? Did it show up in a social media
feed? Was it sent to you by someone you know?
13. Consider the headline or message:
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16. Does the example you’re evaluating have a date on it?
17. Does the example cite a variety of sources, including official and expert sources? Does the information
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19. Can you confirm, using a reverse image search, that any images in your example are authentic (i.e.,
haven’t been altered or taken from another context)?
20. If you searched for this example on a fact-checking site such as snopes.com, factcheck.org, or
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What Happens When Teachers It is easy to clone an existing website and create fake tweets to fool people
Comfort Zone Bots are extremely active on social media and are designed to dominate conversations and
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Fake news and other misinformation often use a real image from an unrelated event.
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1. Exactly who is saying who exactly what about what?  10

13. Consider the headline or message:

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16. Does the example you’re evaluating have a date on it?

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