Unit 1 Digital Literacy Pre-Assessment

An illegal plan for making money by deceiving someone

• prank

• fraud

• hoax

• practical joke

A tendency to search for information that confirms one's own beliefs

• Agenda

• Vetting

• Confirmation bias

• Disinformation

Misinformation that is deliberately created to be false, usually to support an agenda

• Rumor

• Clickbait

• Disinformation

• Bias

To cause someone to adopt extreme positions on political or social issues.

• extremism

• anonymous

• radicalize

• xenophobia

The holding of extreme political or religious views is known as?

• Extremism

• Radicalize

• Xenophobia

• Counterspeech

A plan to deceive someone by saying something false.

• Phishing

• Prank

• Hoax

• Practical joke

An image or headline that tries to get you to click on it, usually for advertising purposes, is called?

• Phishing

• Confirmation Bias

• Clickbait

• Curiosity Gap

The desire people have to figure out missing information is called?

• Clickbait

• Curiosity Gap

• Headline

• Phishing

What is a good step you can take to respond to or help prevent hate speech on social media?

• Report or block users who post hate speech.

• View content only from friends you agree with.

• Shame people who post hateful content by arguing and calling them names.

Why do some people argue for the regulation of online hate speech?

• Regulating hate speech would spread more hate.

• Hate speech is considered as free speech.

• Anything could be considered as hate speech because there is no legal definition.

• Online hate speech can lead to violence against groups of people.