The "Teach In" was about the truthfulness of the media in todays political climate. Several students presented their works regarding this subject. One group of students talked about fake news, what it is and how to detect it. They had done a project on this subject for their class "Children and The Media." They said they had interviewed a group of elementary students asking them what they understood about "Fake News." I found it interesting how they said that many children thought fake news was when the weather channel would be wrong at predicting the weather. They also talked about Facebook engagement levels during the election and the most popular articles during this time period. I was surprised to learn that the most popular stories were fake news. They gave us tips in order to identifying fake news. For example, pay attention to the domain and URL, it seems obvious but sometimes we forget to check. Something that I did not know was to do a reverse image search in order to figure out if the article is fake. I thought their presentation was very interesting and enlightening.
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