How to Deal Constructively with Fake News and (Un)Reliable Information
Planners/Contributors: Fake News Participants
TLT Group Moderators: Steve Gilbert, Beth Dailey, Sally Gilbert
Time:
1:30 Pre-session activities
2:00 Main event
3:00 After thoughts
Description:
“Real-Time Fact-Checking” is the focus for FridayLive! April 7. We’ll examine some recent Fake News, introduce some tools for Real-Time Fact-Checking, and test them together - live!
This extends the TLT Group’s ad hoc online series: “How to Deal Constructively with Fake News and (Un)Reliable Information.” We’ve exchanged worries and hopes, challenges and resources.
We’ll include results from March 24 online crowdsourcing, introduce “Triage for Information Resource Reliability,” and review our “1-Pager” - a brief selection of recommendations, guidelines, and other resources for those who want to BEGIN taking action within higher education: students, faculty, researchers, scholars, librarians, and other academic professionals.
Here’s a sample of fact-checking resources identified in our series, and links to some provocative articles about “trust levels” and the rapidly changing fact-checking “industry”!
Fact-Checking Resources:
Tools: Snopes Fact Check; Crosscheck; Tineye, reverse image search
Tools Limited to Politics:
Articles:
“How ‘News Literacy’ Gets Web Misinformation Wrong,” by Mike Caulfield, April 3, 2017, https://medium.com“
These are the most and least trusted news outlets in America,” by Pamela Engel, Mar. 27, 2017, 4:15 PM, Business Insider website;
“Trust Levels of News Sources by Ideological Group” <Includes useful, provocative graphic>, October 20, 2014, Pew Research Center, Journalism & Media, “POLITICAL POLARIZATION & MEDIA HABITS”
“Expanding Fact Checking at Google,”Journalism & News, Keyword, a Google Blog, Feb 15, 2017
“Fakery blooms in social-media era, spelling deep trouble: The fate of democracy hangs in the balance,” Rob Miraldi, First Freedom 6:02 a.m. ET Jan. 15, 2017, USA Today
“Fact Check” from Google News Help Forum, “What does each source label (e.g., ‘blog’) mean?”
