Decode Fake News: Lesson Planning

Exercises for lessons on the relationship between bias and perspective are in this Google slideshow. 

Article 1 "Mitch McConnell: Proud Moment When I Told Obama 'You Will Not Fill This Supreme Court Vacancy'"

Article 2 "Oops, Donald Trump Accidentally Pays Tribute to 7-Eleven Instead of 9/11"

Article 3 "Ron Wyden Wants to Remind You -- The FBI Knows Things About Trump and Russia That They're Not Sharing"

Article 4 "Donald Trump White House Dress Code Policy: 'Female Staffers Must 'Dress Like Women,'' President Says" 

Article 5 "Trump is Reportedly Obsessed With How People Who Work for Him Dress"

Article 6 "Trump Sacks Defiant Acting Attorney General Sally Yates," BBC News

Article 7 "Weary Professors Give Up; Concede that Africa is a Country"

Article 8 "How Media Became Purveyors of Fake News"

www.breitbart.com -- far-right, ultra-conservative opinion site; former executive chairman Steven K. Bannon is now President Trump's Chief Strategist and Senior Counselor; he was Trump's 2016 Campaign Manager.

http://www.infowars.com/ -- conspiracy theorist and right-wing talk-show host Alex Jones' web site

https://wordpress.com/tag/creativity-movement -- blog by white supremacy group "The Creativity Movement." Here's their article on fake news: http://creativitymovement.net/ministry-of-truth-identifies-fake-news/

http://vnnforum.com -- Vanguard News Network, white supremacist site

https://racialobserver.com/2016/10/15/update-on-matt-hale -- Racial Observer -- white supremacy group

http://politicops.com/ -- "news and satire"

http://nationalreport.net/ -- fake news

Viral Rumors Quiz
(borrowed in large part from News Literacy Project's Checkology Tutorial.)

Potential rumors for the students to investigate:

Are rumors of flammable water coming from faucets because of fracking true?
Did Women's March protestors dump their signs everywhere after the march?

Can You Spot the Hoaxes?