[aisle] "fake news" question

[Claire Greene]

If you subscribe to The Sift through The News Literacy Project you'll get
usable fake news delivered straight to your email on the regular--they're
always timely, which I find makes them much more instructionally valuable.

On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 10:21 AM BROOKE NELSON via AISLE <
aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> Oxford published this study demonstrating why you are pretty much only
> finding right-wing fake news:
> http://comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/polarization-partisanship-and-junk-news/ (short
> version from study: "We demonstrate that (1) on Twitter, a network of
> Trump supporters shares the widest range of known junk news sources and
> circulates more junk news than all the other groups put together; (2) on
> Facebook, extreme hard right pages—distinct from Republican pages—share the
> widest range of known junk news sources and circulate more junk news than
> all the other audiences put together; (3) on average, the audiences for
> junk news on Twitter share a wider range of known junk news sources than
> audiences on Facebook’s public pages.") Here's an article about the study
> from the Guardian
> <https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/feb/06/sharing-fake-news-us-rightwing-study-trump-university-of-oxford>
> .
>
> That said, there isn't a ton of info in here, but this is a start:
> https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-39592010
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 10:14 AM Lorna Code via AISLE <
> aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
>
>> I would like these too. I will be doing a unit on Evaluating websites,
>> news, etc in December.
>> Lorna Code
>> Library Information Specialist
>> Kaneland High School
>> Junior and Senior Class Advisor
>> (630) 365-5100  X71221
>> lorna.code at kaneland.org
>>
>> “What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels
>> about education.” Harold Howe
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 10:03 AM Caroline Fox Anvick via AISLE <
>> aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello all,
>>> I teach a research class to high schoolers that discusses bad sources of
>>> information (unreliable websites, biased information, fake news, etc.). I
>>> love using examples of these bad sources - the more outrageous, the better!
>>> My problem is that most of the examples I find tend to be from far
>>> right-wing sources (Pizza-gate, birtherism, Kellyanne Conway's "alternative
>>> facts," etc.). My own personal politics aside, I don't want kids who
>>> identify as more conservative to feel like their team is being unfairly
>>> picked on. Does anyone have some good examples of fake news-ish type things
>>> from the Left?
>>> Thanks so much!
>>> MAILMAN_MIMEDEFANG
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> Brooke Nelson
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> East Peoria Community High School
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Claire Greene
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Northbrook Junior High School
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