[aisle] "fake news" question

Kari S klf.stevenson at gmail.com
Thu Oct 24 12:27:31 CDT 2019


What about David Wolfe's stuff? I've seen it placed on the far left of News
Bias Charts, opposite of things like InfoWars.

On Thu, 24 Oct 2019 at 10:07, Karrie Fisher via AISLE <
aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> Here are a couple of websites that I've used with high school students.  I
> give them several and they have to figure out which websites are real.
> Sometimes it requires reading the whole webpage, sometimes they have to do
> a secondary search to confirm the validity.  I've indicated the real
> websites.
>
> https://www.improbable.com/airchives/classical/cat/cat.html
> https://zapatopi.net/afdb/
> http://descy.50megs.com/akcj3/bmd.html
> http://www.thedogisland.com/index.html
> https://www.fvza.org/index.html
> http://www.genochoice.com/
> https://www.lingscars.com/  (REAL)
>
> https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8029591/Mouse-found-baked-into-loaf-of-bread.html
> (REAL)
> https://www.thesprucepets.com/stick-insects-as-pets-1236887 (REAL)
> http://city-mankato.us/
>
> My high schoolers loved this exploration and had a few good debates about
> the websites that looked legit.
>
>
> Happily Ever After,
>
> Karrie Fisher
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> 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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