How False News Can Spread

"A lie can spread half way around the ________ while the truth is putting on its shoes."--Supposedly Mark Twain

• city

• world

• gymnasium

The phoneoma in which miss information is reported, printed, then reprinted, but turns out to be FALSE, and the first source cites those who reprinted it....

• A headache

• Fake News

• Circular Reporting

• OMG CAN WE BELEIVE ANYTHING WE READ?!?!!

True or False: An entire movement against childhood vaccinations was caused by a single paper printed with wrong information.

• True. *Face palm*

• False. That could NEVER happen!

True or False. Once, a British satire article, simply making a joke, was referenced in serious science publications over 400 times.

• Dat's True.

• False.

True or False. Our desire for quick answers can get in the way of our certainty of their validity.

• True.

• False.

Avoiding sensationalist media, searching for criticisms for suspicious information, and tracing the original source of a report CAN HELP SLOW DOWN A LIE.

• True dat.

• Nah, I don't believe it.

How can we "give the truth more time to put on its shoes?"

• By searching for the original source of a claim/report.

• By not spreading sensational headlines or news.

• By not believing/sharing everything we read on the internet.

• ALL of those things, yo!

What was this video trying to teach you?

• IDK.

• That false news is capable of rapid spreading.

• That we need to make sure our information is correct before using/sharing/spreading.

• That the world is cray!