Fake News and Media Bias

What does the term "bias" mean?

• When you treat something or someone fairly because of previous ideas or stereotypes

• When you have a neutral and objective opinion about something or someone

• When you like or dislike something or someone fairly, without any prior ideas

• When you like or dislike something or someone unfairly, often because of existing ideas or stereotypes

Answer explanation

Remember: Bias is when you like or dislike something or someone unfairly, often because of preconceived ideas or stereotypes. It can make you treat things or people unfairly because you're not being objective.

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True or False/Fact or Cap

Implicit bias means we have hidden biases that make us treat some people unfairly without even knowing it, based on things like their race or gender. It's when our brains make unfair decisions automatically, even if we don't want to.

• True/Fact

• False/Cap

Answer explanation

Remember: "implicit (imply)" means something that's not obvious or hidden.

"Bias" means having a one-sided or unfair preference for something or someone, which can lead to unfair decisions or actions.

(For example, Imagine you're a soccer referee, and your best friend's child is playing in one of the teams. You might unconsciously prefer that team to win, and this could make you referee the game unfairly by making decisions that favor your friend's child's team. This is an example of bias because it's an unfair preference affecting your judgment.)

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Which is the correct answer? Bias...

• does not influence our decisions and behavior without us being aware of it

• refers to conscious and deliberate prejudices that people hold against certain groups

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​ (a)   is is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that ​ (b)   one's beliefs or hypotheses. We don’t perceive circumstances ​ (c)   . We pick out those bits of data that make us feel (d)   because they confirm our preconceived notion of how things are supposed to be.

• good
• confirms
• objectively
• Confirmation bias
• Information bias
• Disinformaion
• bad

Answer explanation

Confirmation bias is when we pay more attention to things that agree with what we already believe and ignore things that disagree with our beliefs. It's like only listening to people who agree with you and not giving a fair chance to different ideas.

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Which is the correct answer? Confirmation bias is...

• when people tend to seek out information that contradicts their existing beliefs and opinions

• when people tend to seek out information that confirms or supports their existing beliefs and opinions

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True or False:
"Fake news" means stories or information that are true and look like real news.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

The statement is False. Fake news is not true and accurate like real news; it consists of false or misleading information presented as if it were real news

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Angelina, Itzel, and Yanni are working on a school project about media literacy. They need to evaluate the credibility of a news source they've chosen. What factors should they consider?

• bias, reputation, expertise, transparency, accountability, cross-referencing

• popularity, timeliness, entertainment value, number of followers, website design, advertising revenue

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Ron, Neveah, and Carlton are in a media literacy class. Their teacher gives them an assignment to identify bias in a news article. How can they accomplish this task?

• By analyzing language, using fact checking sites like snopes.com, and comparing with other sources.

• By only relying on one source.

• By analyzing the length of the article. Asking several people around them if it's true.

• By ignoring the language used in the article.

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During a school project, Jakiem, Kierra, and Jesus are tasked with analyzing the reliability of different news sources. What methods should they use?

• Fact-checking, cross-referencing, evaluating credibility, checking for bias, considering reputation

• Reading headlines, trusting popular news sources, relying on social media

• Ignoring news sources, believing everything you hear, not fact-checking

• Only considering news from one source, not evaluating credibility, not checking for bias

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In a school debate, Morgan, Makayla, and Treasure noticed that their opponents were citing social meida websites as sources for their arguments to sway the audience. How could they argue that social media is not a reliable source? (More than one answer.)

• Anyone can post on social media - it doesn't make it true.

• People on social media just want to be popular and get the most amount of followers.

• Influencers make money based on how many people like their page so they often post things that are popular and not necessarily true.

• None of these are true. Social media is fair and balanded and is a good source of information.

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