MedLitEduT: Fake News | MediActiveYouth

This presentation contains some basic information about fake news and how to recognize them, as well as additional sources and links on the subject.

In sort, "fake news” are those news stories that are false: the story itself is fabricated, with no verifiable facts, sources or quotes.

Additional Sources:

•List of Fake News Websites on Wikipedia, most of which produce fake political news

•Fact v. Fiction - Fake News: a useful website containing examples of fake news, fake news websites, quiz and online games for practicing identifying and recognizing fake news

•Another examples of fake news websites by the Iffy.

•A useful website about Identifying Fake News Sources

•Stebbins, Leslie. (2015). Finding Reliable Information Online: Adventures of an Information Sleuth. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015

Stebbings offers an interesting book in which each chapter presents an example of one online search for information, from a question of is red wine good for health to where to go on a holiday. She follows search engines such as Google and specialized websites and searches for sources and roots of information to show which are good and reliable sources.

Balkan websites and initiatives for exposing fake news:

•https://fakenews.rs/

•https://raskrinkavanje.ba/

•https://www.raskrikavanje.rs/

•http://www.istinomer.rs/pregled_ocena/pstr,10/strana,1/

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