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News Literacy: News Views & Fact Checking Resources: Spotting Social Engineering

Social Engineering: Most Common Tactic: Playing on your emotions.

5 Emotions Used in Social Engineering Attacks [with Examples] (secureworldexpo.com)
GREED
CURIOSITY
URGENCY
HELPFULNESS
FEAR
Tactic: Appeal to Emotion (also known as: argument by vehemence, playing on emotions, emotional appeal, "for the children")
Red Flags Warn of Social Engineering - KnowBe4 Blog

Deception Detection

Bot spotters

Botometer - detect and remove likely social bots from your list of Twitter followers or friends
Bot Sentinel - Spots bot-like behavior
BotSlayer - helps track and detect potential manipulation of information spreading on Twitter To use BotSlayer, users can download the software through an online form and follow simple instructions to install it in the cloud or on their own server.
Hoaxy: visualize the spread of a piece of information

Visualize the spread of news: Spot the bots...

Hoaxy: A Platform for Tracking Online Misinformation

"Misinformation (yellow/brown) spreads within the healthy (blue) Twittersphere network. Left: chemtrails conspiracies mix with conversations about the sky. Right: antivax campaigns penetrate discussions about the flu."

Evaluating Twitter Accounts

How to spot fake news

Fake News, Propaganda, and Disinformation: Learning to Critically Evaluate Media Sources: Unreliable News Content - Types (library.cornell.edu)

Image Source: How To Spot Fake News

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