Task 3 – Spotting Fake News (identifying, defining and categorizing them)

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Expected duration: 2 hours

Aims


  • To look for Fake News, explain the difficulties of identifying Fake News and make a preliminary list of characteristics.
  • To relate to the characteristics of the texts, ideological taint, agendas, etc.
  • To define Fake News and compare to the glossary of the project.

Questions


  1. How do you identify/spot Fake News? What characteristics suggest to you that this is Fake News? Make a preliminary list.
  2. What types of Fake News do exist? Identify different Fake News types, try to define them and explain their differences.  
  3. In the process of identifying, classifying, and defining Fake News, what difficulties do you think one might encounter?

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