Fake News Friday - April 4 2025

Fake News Friday
April 4, 2025

By Caleb Pahl

Multiple Choice

What is propaganda?

• Information that provokes you — often by using false or distorted information to manipulate your emotions.

• Information that documents an event or trend. It has not been analyzed, checked, edited, explained or placed in any context.

• Information that sells you a product or service.

• Clickbait

Open Ended

Which team is going to win the Futsal tournament tonight?

Multiple Choice

Would the following scenario violate a person's First Amendment rights?
Being arrested for writing an online post criticizing the government.

• It depends on whether the post contains profanity

• This would not violate a person's rights

• Yes, this would violate a person's right to free speech

• The Supreme Court would have to decide this issue

Multiple Choice

Which whale was real?

• Whale #1

• Whale #2

• Whale #3

• Whale #4

Multiple Choice

According to a recent "Life in Media" Survey conducted by the University of Southern Florida, what percentage of the 13 year olds that were surveyed have their own smartphones?

• 72%

• 79%

• 84%

• 78%