WS 201 - Women Around the World (de Soyza): Home

Class Outcomes

By the end of the class student should be able to:

• define fake news
• articulate 5-6 different types of misinformation
• identify tools for identifying the bias of news sources
• identify 3-4 techniques for determining the realness/fakeness of a news story

Part One

Students will  works in groups to examine and analyze news stories from different sources.

Part Two

Students will find a credible article from a mainstream news source that addresses any women’s human rights issue.

Common Definitions of Fake News

• News articles that are intentionally and verifiably false and could mislead readers

Hunt Alcott, NUY & Matthew Gentzhow, Stanford

• News on the Internet as fictious articles deliberately fabricated to deceive readers, generally with the goal of profiting through clickbait.

New York Times

• “Fake news is usually a mixture of truth and falsity…”
•  “You’ll have some facts, and [they are combined with] some made up story that will be in accordance with your already biased partisanship.”
• “Although fake news is a relatively new ‘buzzword’, the problem of unchecked, misrepresented or untrue information has a long history.”

Vincent F. Hendricks, director of the Center for Information and Bubble Studies (CIBS) University of Copenhagen.
Author of Infostorms: Why Do We ‘Like’? Explaining Individual Behavior on the Social Net

Types of Misinformation

Misinformation comes wrapped in many types of packages. Here are just a few:

intentionally false/bogus
unintentionally misleading
malicious
satire/parody
poor reporting
bad research
bad science
click bait
pure propaganda
partisan
sponsored content
hoax
conspiracy theories
counterfeit
pseudoscience
fautography

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