Fake News Friday - May 9, 2025

Fake News Friday
May 9, 2025

By Caleb Pahl

Multiple Choice

True or False
Yesterday the Catholic Church announced that a new pope had been officially selected

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

The new pope is the first ever pope to have been born in the USA. His name is Robert Prevost and he was born in Chicago, Illinois. What new name has he taken as pope?

• Pope Francis II

• Pope Peter IV

• Pope Leo XIV

• Pope Benedict III

Multiple Choice

This Facebook post claims that a 12-year-old child named Shelly Sheridan went missing in Northern Ireland.

Is this real news or fake news?

• This is a real report

• This is fake news

• It is impossible to know if this is real or fake

Multiple Choice

What is one detail about the post that makes it suspicious?

• Everything posted to social media is usually false

• Northern Ireland is known to be a country full of scammers

• The name of the account that posted the image is "Buy and Sell Northern Ireland"

• The image is fake

​What else about this post does not seem right?

Multiple Choice

What is something else from this facebook post that does not seem right?

• The post is full of spelling errors

• The post is too detailed

• The post first refers to the missing child as "Shelly" and then at the end of the post it refers to her as "Sarah"

• The post includes personal information that a parent would usually not post to social media