Living in an online World – Fake News! Link to Loom video: https://tinyurl.com/y66ow99e Online news – real or fake?

• Lots of us now go straight online to get news and look up other facts and information • We use smartphones, tablets and laptops to find out all sorts of information from world news to local news, celebrity gossip to politics • Some of this will be true, but some will be inaccurate, false and even fake. • The term 'fake news' has become really common – but do you know what it actually means ? And could you spot it? Online news – real or fake?

• Today we are going to be looking how to spot whether a news story or social media feed is genuine or fake and to think about how the manipulation of images might mislead people who see them online • We want to show you it’s important to question what you read on websites and social media feeds and to get you to think more critically about what you see and hear online and on social media in our online culture • We want you to think about, and whether it is completely accurate, a version of the truth or just fake. © NewsWise 2019 © NewsWise 2019 © NewsWise 2019 © NewsWise 2019 © NewsWise 2019 © NewsWise 2019 © NewsWise 2019 © NewsWise 2019 Fake or real?

© NewsWise 2019 Fake or real?

© NewsWise 2019 Fake or real?

© NewsWise 2019 Fake or real?

© NewsWise 2019 © NewsWise 2019 © NewsWise 2019 What is fake news? There are lots of interpretations of fake news: • Fake news could be a story that is completely false or could be suggested as misleading, a false claim, spin, satire or even a mistake. • It could be made up stories and information • It is often meant to be widely shared - perhaps to shock or scare • To persuade people to think a certain way or vote a certain way • To make money from advertising - clickbait BBC’s definition: False information distributed deliberately, usually for political or commercial purposes How do you keep up to date with what’s happening in the world? • Do you think it’s important to pay attention to the news? Why or why not? • How often do you watch/read/listen to the news? • How do you primarily get your news? (social media/online media sites/TV/ news apps news?) • How do you know if what you read/ hear/ listen to in the news is trustworthy? • How confident are you that you would know fake news if you saw it?

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Top Tips for checking news stories online

• Who created the information? • What is the story? Is it actually believable? Is the headline sensational? • Where has the information come from? Where has it been reported? Where has it been posted? Is it a reliable source? Where have you read it, has it just been shared from somewhere else? • Why ? Is there an ulterior motive to this story? • When was it posted? Is it old news? Is it an April Fools? • How is it presented? How do you know for certain that it is true? Or not? Too amazing to be true? Trusted sources of news

• These are some examples of well known news companies that most people trust to tell truthful news stories

BBC News ITV News Channel 4 News

Sky News The Guardian The Times

The Telegraph New York Times First News CBBC The Week Junior What about fake news on social media? What about fake news on social media? • The ex-president of the USA Donald Trump was well known for his use of social media to express his opinion. • But which of these is really his twitter? @reaiDonaldTrump @realDonaldTrunp @realDonalTrump @realDonaldTrump @realDonaldJTrump

The real @realDonaldTrump Fake @realDonalTrump Top tips for social media sources: • Look closely at: • All the words, including the name • Do they use lots of caps and exclamation points? Is that like them? • How many followers do they have? Who are their followers? • How active are they? • When was the account created? What do we know? • Previous tweets/posts and reaction/comments • What time of day was it posted? (Bots will post any time and often!) • Does their own website or websites you trust link to this account? Images online What do you see? How do you know it is real? Is it edited? Has it been manipulated? In ’s world, fake images have implications for everything from politics to medicine. Fake or manipulated images shared across the Web and social media can entertain, deceive, emotionally distress, and influence public opinions and actions. Houston, Texas (2017) Hurricane Sandy, New York state (2012)

Top tips for checking images

• Does the picture look altered? • Weather, scale, time of day/year, shadows? • Signs, shop names, posters, car registration, landmarks, vehicles • Clothing, behaviour, people’s expressions • Does picture/story appear anywhere else? • Why only one photo? No one else saw this? • What else has this person posted? • Is the person likely to be at this location? Reverse Image Search • You can learn more about an image or the with a reverse image search. • You might see a picture with a news story that looks a bit unconvincing, using a reverse search, you might be able to decide if it’s been altered in some way • For example, you see online an image showing The Loch Ness Monster has been seen in the River Yarrow and members of the Royal Family having a picnic at Rivington Pike • You might find these images have been photoshopped! Reverse Image Search Google and TinEye have a reverse image search. • Your results can include: – Search results for objects in the image – Similar images – Websites with the image or a similar image on the site https://tineye.com/how – The creator of an image or the copyright holder – Allows you to swap between your search and the resulting images which can show if they’ve been cropped, resized, skewed or manipulated REAL checks R eal - ask “is this real?” E vidence - What’s the source? author, publication, web address, date & time, including pictures. Add it all up - Ask around, use own knowledge, other’s knowledge, the story detail and a little research. L ook around - any other sources carrying the story/image/post? Choose your task!

Image research task – find a selection of ‘fake images’ (there Creative writing task - Write/type Fact sheet -Create a fact sheet or are loads!) and explain how they a convincing fake news story, with poster for students on how to spot have been edited/manipulated a sensational headline to attract fake news stories online and how and why- was it for attention. to question what they read. entertainment? To change people’s opinions etc

Image manipulation - Using Fake news analysis - Find different image editing apps or software Create a code of conduct for examples of news that has been on your phone, tablet, computer, news and social media sites when proved to be wrong, print screen create a ‘fake’ image where you reporting news stories to ensure the story/page and write about alter the image so it has been they don’t publish fake news. how someone should have been edited to add or remove parts of able to spot that it was fake news. the picture to mispresent what was there originally

Media task 1 - Record (eg using a voice recorder on your phone, Media task 2 - Record a TV news tablet or a mic on a laptop/pc) a piece about a fake news story radio news piece or interview that you have made up or found about a fake news story that you online. You could work with a have made up or that you’ve friend or someone else in your found online. You could work with family who is at school a friend or someone else in your family who is at school Sources • https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/young-reporter/lesson- 1-real-news-vs-fake-news/z899vwx • https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/young-reporter/lesson- 3-social-media-images-data/z3grsk7 • https://uploads.guim.co.uk/2020/05/15/News_Navigat or_2020.pdf • https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/fake-news • https://www.theguardian.com/newswise/2019/oct/07/l esson-5-spotting-fake-news-pshe-education