The following links were included in a recent issue of my newsletter, Digital Education:
Fact or fiction? How to check the news.
Why 80 per cent of young people in this Macedonian town have turned to posting ‘fake news’.
Why Do Hoax Videos Proliferate When Disaster Strikes?
8 things students should know about the new media
https://fullfact.org for separating fact from fiction (UK-centred) and…
… https://fullfact.org/toolkit/#factchecking-the-internet for very useful set of how-to articles about to detect fake images, headlines and other aspects of news.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com for checking the mainstream media for left- or right-wing bias, conspiracy theory peddlers, or satire.
https://www.factcheck.org/the-factcheck-wire/ for examining the truth behind the headlines (very US-centric)
A generic activity for teaching about fake news - a hand-drawn infographic from me.
Newsguard is a website evaluation scheme that helps you decide whether or not a website is trustworthy as far as news reporting is concerned. See How Newsguard rated the ICT & Computing in Education website, and my Review of Newsguard.
Newswise is a free cross-curricular news literacy project for 9-11 year-olds. See Danny Nicholson's article: Become fake news detectives with Newswise.
Here's an online game/simulation to demonstrate how misinformation spreads on the internet. Contrary to what you might think, it does not require a majority verdict so to speak: Crowds.
Madness of crowds screenshot, by Terry Freedman
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