Students Ability To Tell Fake News

Social media news and magazines are brainwashing students: many people would say this actual worldwide effect on todays' society! Especially, author Camila Domonoske would agree, who published, “ Students Have 'Dismaying' Inability To Tell Fake News From Real, Study Finds” she argues and illustrates there is a “ fake news crisis” and that teens are allegedly the most affected by what is true in the news today. Domonoske’s sources are put together without adding personal opinions in her article, which can be considered “ bias” and not reliable to some readers. Her article is supported strongly to readers with informing the readers of several sources, abundant amount proven facts, statistics and using a creative writing strategy such as logos throughout her argument to appeal her readers.

Check” by Alyssa Rosenberg describes possible strategies that can be used when an individual is trying to figure out if the information found online is true. Rosenberg and her colleague David Ignatius asked individuals what outlets and writers did they had confidence in and to explain. Most of the people interviewed said that they trusted writers and individuals who passed along stories. Nick Baumann a senior editor at Huffington Post provided questions that people can ask themselves to ensure that the information on social media is credible. The author’s thesis is to help individuals who have trouble on judging what information online is true and to not get tricked

In “Colleges Turn ‘Fake News’ Epidemic into a Teachable Moment” (Washington Post, April 6, 2017), Kitson Jazynka highlights professors from across the United States that have implemented different strategies for teaching students to find and address fake news. Jazynka first writes of professor Beth Jannery at George Mason University and how her students have had personal experience with fake news and how they handled the situation. In one case, the student decided to research the topic herself and find the truth. Jazynka advises that the professors cited in her article are teaching students to “detect bias, missing points of view, misleading slants and economic influences” to ensure they have a complete understanding of the articles and their

In the article there is a segment titled “Easy to do, hard to spot” and the segment primarily talks about how hard in is to tell the difference between real news and fake news with I found the be very truthfully considering the fact that anyone can post anything

People don’t get the chance to decide which side they believe for themselves; they are being told wrong or biased info 61.8% of the time. Television is also guilty of being biased and spreading misinformation and with that, “Information has grown more unreliable, and ‘fake news’ becomes harder to detect. One in five people said they never double-checked information from television news, which can be heavily biased” (Aliza Vigderman). Aliza explains how this is contributing towards the growth of unreliable information. This evidence helps us understand how misinformation is spread and can incorporate bias when spreading information.

During times of tragedies and immense events, we like to be comforted with information that makes sense to us. “Confirmation bias is the idea that we’re more likely to consume and share information that fits with our already-held beliefs”(Willingham 2). Sometimes during a time a tragedy, we cling onto what we find is comfortable. With confirmation bias, the fake news that is served directly to us is what we think fits our prior knowledge. In order to neglect confirmation bias, we need to confront the real situation and not believe what seems plausible(Willingham 2). If you see a shark swimming through streets flooded with water after a hurricane, are you going to believe it?(Willingham 2). Even though people are ranting about how awful the

As time goes by old technology such as tv will be replaced by the new, which can be summarized into one word, the internet. The internet has opened up many doors to the young generation and has also helped the young to understand what's going on in the world. To put it in simple terms the internet has given the new generation multiple sources where they may find the information which they are looking for. As to about ten years ago the news channel was the only way to spread information, so everything that people heard and saw on the news, they believed. Now there are multiple places to find information. Looking for information for kids, is going on the internet and looking at everything that pops up in the search engine. This younger generation will remove any bias news out there because they are looking at all sides of a story as opposed to one tv channel.

I have gained more technology skills and I have also learned the correct format for an MLA paper. I was able to use these skills by typing up a Fake News essay in which I was to explain to my audience on how what is seen on the media or the internet can’t always be real. Fake news is used for companies to make money out of people visiting their sites or see their products. While some people create fake news to spread lies and rumors about other people such as celebrities. With the fake news essay is also stated the consequences of how fake news is used and can affect more than one person. Such as people will continue to spread the false news forever, people will get the false information and use it as evidence for when doing research, or can mislead ideas about a group or person. With this essay I was able to learn that I shouldn’t trust on what I read online or see on the media because it may not be

In a work where news gets thrown in our faces right , left and center , it becomes difficult to filter out which news is true and which is not. But , before asking how to filter out the news , we need to ask ourselves why should we have to categorise the news as credible or non-credible ? Why would the person writing this article wouldn’t want to lie to me ? Many times a journalist may get a story from a source who may or may not be very honest or in some rare cases journalists may make up stories with twisted facts and misquoting individuals. However, in the media business , when someone makes a mistake , there’s always ten others who are waiting to point it out. What makes the media credible, to the everyday reader, is the idea that the

“Information Literacy: It’s Become a Priority in an Era of Fake News” written by Shannon Najmabadi’s states how critical it is today to be able recognize the truth as lies have become a widespread as they are featured in many sources. Shannon recognizing this predicament is supported by a report by the Stanford University presenting the nerving truth that students are unable to find credible resources. Shannon therefor defines information literacy as the ability to find, evaluate, and use information as an important technique that needs more focus so people know how to gather honest sources. In support of Shannon she uses the lack of information literacy being taught, the change trying to be made, and her call for action as her hope for others

It’s all real, you know, but it is real about what is not necessarily real. In the modern life, information comes from a lot of different sources such as books, new papers, television, and internet which belong to mass media. In the essay “All I Know is what I Read in the Papers”, Chuck Klosterman conceded that “I would never try to convince someone not to hate the media” because “they inevitably hate the wrong thing” (203). People get breaking news about government, sciences, or celebrities every day. They watch TV, read new papers, buy magazines, and research on the internet to collect the news about the presidential election between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, to know more about Justin Bieber’s new girlfriend or about the divorce between

The article, “Reality Check”, made me think about how much false information we are given. You can’t trust anyone, everyone lies. Even if they think the information is true, their source could be wrong. It’s almost impossible to find reliable facts in our world. I always go on twitter at night, and I’ll read the most unbelievable things on there and still listen to it just because it’s there. I’ll get heated over tweets that have fake information and make a fool of myself. I need to stop looking at twitter and maybe try the news instead. However, Achenbach states that sometimes even reliable sources like news shows give out bad information. So there really is no information show or website out there that you can trust. Even the government gets things wrong and/or lies to us. This article made me sad for the human race. Why do we feel the need to make up fake information and spread it. This is something that has happened a lot in my high school experience. Girls and guys get petty and decide to spread vicious rumors about others. However, the fact that other people believe it and continue to spread it around makes it even worst. “Reality Check” did make great points about false information, but it also confused me. I found this article very hard to follow and comprehend because it was so boring. Some parts in the article just

“Individuals and nations owe it to themselves and the world to become informed” . It is important for American citizens to be informed regarding the falsehoods of fake news, as an informed nation would be less susceptible to believing and spreading false information. Within the scope of American society, it is a relatively feasible task to validate the degree of truth in a news story. One manner in which an individual can become more informed in regards to the validity of a specific news source is to use the fact checking resources on Snopes.com. Snopes is a website dedicated to assigning “truth ratings” to articles through the process of first-hand contact with the primary source of a publication, contact with experts in the subject area relevant to the information presented in the article, and a meticulous comparison and contrast with other news outlets . A website such as Snopes should not be relied on entirely however to decipher whether an article is fake news or not. Individuals should also take some time to perform other precautionary actions such as, conducting background research on the authors of news articles,

The recent surge in popularity of social media comes with a price: fake news. Fake news is defined as news or media that has been altered or modified. Journalists have begun to analyze why that fake news exists and why it continues exist. Two authors, Eoin O’Carroll and Kevin D. Williamson, both have written articles about fake news. Eoin O’Carroll’s article “How Information Overload Helps Spread Fake News,” discusses how the media has bombarded us with news stories, blurring the distinct lines between real and fake news. Kevin D. Williamson, a journalist for the National Review, writes in his article “‘Fake News, Media and Voters: Shared Reality Must Be Acknowledged” that the news is not fake; it just does not align with one’s personal beliefs. Both authors successfully appeal to their audiences’ emotions and feelings, but O’Carroll is more likely to succeed than Williamson in persuading his audience to try and combat fake news because the writer presents himself as someone the intended readers will more readily identify with and offers evidence that his readers will find more compelling.

As the world evolves and changes due to the explosion of technology, so does mankind's ways of intellectual comprehension of informative news. The present day of news has overemphasized the meaning of fake news; which represents any form of false information that is illustrated as factual news. That tends to spread throughout the internet and the media. Misinformed news has taken over the world in so many ways, such as the birth of satirical and sketchy news, the financial motivation to publish actual false news, and difficult to sustain news.