Fact Vs. Fiction by Jennifer LaGarde & Darren Hudgins

Author:Jennifer LaGarde & Darren Hudgins [LaGarde, Jennifer & Hudgins, Darren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: International Society for Technology in Education
Published: 2018-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

Don’t Feed Fake News, Either

The same advice applies to fake news as well. The more we click on stories that are misleading, biased, or entirely false, the more these very same types of “new articles” will multiply. Fake news creators will give us more of whatever gets the most clicks. Whenever we click on and share a story that is suspect, we are providing Dimitri (see Chapter 3) and his fellow news creators with information about what we want to read. Just as we should stop feeding trolls, so too must we stop feeding Dimitris (Smith & Banic, 2016).

That said, how do we know if a news story is real or fake without clicking on it? Well, that is an excellent question and one we’d like to cheekily answer with a quote. As with all great quotes on the internet, to whom we should rightfully attribute the statement “The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good [people] to do nothing” (2018) is the subject of much debate. But whether it was Edward Burke or John F. Kennedy, we believe that when it comes to fake news, doing nothing (in this case, not clicking) is the most preferable response. Moreover, there are some strategies we can employ and teach our students to help everyone make reasonable judgments about a source’s reliability without ever visiting the site. We’ll discuss those in the next chapter, where we’ll also give you the chance to put those strategies to the test.

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