(E) Disinformation and society
Building Block E
Examples of fake news
Misinformation Dataset: https://esoc.princeton.edu/publications/esoc-covid-19-misinformation-dataset
Resources
- History of Fake News: https://libguides.ncl.ac.uk/fakenews/history
- Learn to check resources: Games, videos, tools, educational guides and other resources. https://learntocheck.org/en/resources/
- Get your facts straight: Resources that help you teach media literacy to young people and their parents. https://www.alldigitalweek.eu/get-facts/resources/
References
- Anducas, Marta. (2021). The power to (dis)inform: a journey on the back of the vespertilio homo. https://platoniq.medium.com/the-power-to-dis-inform-a-journey-on-the-back-of-the-vespertilio-homo-5c3655af4d9b
- Soll, Jacob. (2016, December 19). The long and brutal history of fake news. Politico. https://www.politico.eu/article/fake-news-elections-trump-media/
- Starmans, Barbara. 10 Examples of Fake News from History. The social historian. https://www.thesocialhistorian.com/fake-news/
- Timsit, Annabelle. (2019, February 12). In the age of fake news, here’s how schools are teaching kids to think like fact-checkers. Quartz. https://qz.com/1533747/in-the-age-of-fake-news-heres-how-schools-are-teaching-kids-to-think-like-fact-checkers/
- A Brief History of Fake News. CITS. https://www.cits.ucsb.edu/fake-news/brief-history