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News Literacy: News Views & Fact Checking Resources

How to spot fake news

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

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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")
"Description: This is the general category of many fallacies that use emotion in place of reason in order to attempt to win the argument."
Red Flags Warn of Social Engineering - KnowBe4 Blog

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."

Deception Detection

Evaluating Twitter Accounts

ClaimBuster: Automated Live Fact-checking (idir.uta.edu)

Bot spotters

Hoaxy: visualize the spread of a piece of information

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Last Updated: Jun 19, 2025 11:36 AM
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