Determining the truthfulness and accuracy of material viewed

This is when genuine information or imagery is manipulated to deceive. The genuine content is tampered with or doctored in some way.

• False Connection

• Manipulated Content

• Imposter Content

The new content is 100% false. These texts are designed to deceive and to harm. New fake social media accounts are created to spread new and invented content from it.

• Misleading Content

• Fabricated Content

• Imposter Content

These types of viewable texts have no intention to cause harm but has potential to fool.

• Misleading Content

• Imposter Content

• Satire/Parody

This is when genuine sources are impersonated. An example of this is when the logo of a well-known brand or name is used alongside false content.

• Satire/Parody

• Misleading Content

• Imposter Content

This is when headlines, visuals, or captions don’t support the content. This technique makes claims about content via a sensational headline, only to find the headline is horribly disconnected from the actual article or piece of content.

• False Connection

• Satire/Parody

• Manipulated Content

•This is when genuine content is shared with false contextual information. It often happens during a breaking news event when old imagery is re-shared, but it also happens when old news articles are re-shared as new, when the headline still potentially fits with contemporary events.

• Manipulated Content

• False Context

• Imposter Content

Some common examples of this technique are selection of a partial segment from a quote, creating statistics that support a particular claim but don’t take into account how the data set was created, or cropping a photo to frame an event in a particular way.

• Manipulated Content

• Imposter Content

• Misleading Content

TRUE or FALSE: Viewing is an active process of attending and comprehending visual media such as television, advertising images, films, diagrams, symbols, photographs, videos, dramas, drawings, sculptures and paintings.

• TRUE

• FALSE

(a)   is the fact of being exact or correct.

Truth is the quality of being dishonest and containing or telling any lie.

• True

• False