Can You Recognise Fake News?
Can You Recognise Fake or Misleading News?
Look at these stories and decide whether they are real, fake or misleading. Talk about which questions you would want to ask to find out more. How would you check whether the news story is true?
#1
Not allowing citizens to own guns leads to a lower murder rate.
#2 A man rode a motorbike across Lake Como
#3 A woman in America was sentenced to 18 months in prison for using someone else's urine in a urine test (the urine contained drugs)
#4 A Muslim woman walked indifferently past an injured man on London Bridge after a terrorist attack
#5 The same girl was photographed crying immediately after 3 different massacres in 3 different cities.
#6 Adolf Hitler was named as Time Magazine's "Man of The Year" in 1938
Look at these stories and decide whether they are real, fake or misleading. Talk about which questions you would want to ask to find out more. How would you check whether the news story is true?
#1
Not allowing citizens to own guns leads to a lower murder rate.
#2 A man rode a motorbike across Lake Como
#3 A woman in America was sentenced to 18 months in prison for using someone else's urine in a urine test (the urine contained drugs)
#4 A Muslim woman walked indifferently past an injured man on London Bridge after a terrorist attack
#5 The same girl was photographed crying immediately after 3 different massacres in 3 different cities.
#6 Adolf Hitler was named as Time Magazine's "Man of The Year" in 1938
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