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Spot the Hoax- the Art of Deception

Total questions: 24

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

General ratio of fake news among news items is about ...?

a)

10%

b)

20%

c)

35%

d)

48%

2.

When alone, teenagers get most of their info from:

a)

school

b)

family

c)

social media

d)

TV

3.

Targeted, deliberately political or religious information campaign is called ...

(a)  

4.

Very great number of people believe in some sort of ...

a)

fairy tales

b)

ideology

c)

conspiracy theory

d)

legend

5.

If any piece of information has reliable sources, authentic refences and cross-checks it can be called ...

a)

source

b)

hoax

c)

misinformation

d)

fact

6.

Most of the articles in tabloid newspapers are :

a)

real

b)

hoaxes

7.

The more data in the world makes navigation and orientation for users even ...

(a)  

8.

In the new digital age warfares Information has become a ...

a)

nightmare

b)

weapon

c)

scam

d)

ideology

9.

The smarter the gadgets, the less intelligent the users may become !

a)

True

b)

False

c)

No evidence

10.

We talk about misinformation when someone tends to

a)

share news which are totally fake

b)

share news with some truth content just to mislead people

c)

deliberately lie about something

d)

change the context only

11.

Very complex stories and narratives with some truth content may be called ...

a)

disinformation campaigns

b)

legends

c)

conspiracy theories

d)

ideologies

12.

The invasion of the Martians was a true ...

a)

TV show

b)

movie

c)

radio program

d)

newspaper article

13.

Which big tech company has the biggest influence in the world ?

a)

Microsoft

b)

Twitter

c)

Google

d)

Facebook

14.

Many teenagers earned a lot of money working for troll farms in ...

a)

Romania

b)

Hungary

c)

Czech Republic

d)

North Macedonia

15.

If you truly believe in con theos you cannot be persuaded by ...

a)

truth

b)

reality

c)

facts

d)

hoaxes

16.

The best method against fake news and con theos is to apply ...

a)

facts

b)

books

c)

critical thinking skills

d)

secondary resources

17.

Propaganda, disinformation, misinformation, fake news are usually applied in ...

a)

democracies

b)

monarchies

c)

dictatorships

d)

republics

18.

Who are considered to be the least reliable information resources ?

a)

academics

b)

teachers

c)

influencers

d)

politicians

19.

Which online source is the most reliable from the list below ?

a)

The Onion

b)

Wikipedia

c)

Sputnik

d)

InfoWars

20.

As the old wisdom goes, 'the first victim of a war is...

a)

politics

b)

justice

c)

truth

d)

knowledge

21.

As the Ukrainian war has demonstrated a new efficient military branch is...

a)

information

b)

disinformation

c)

hoaxes

d)

truth

22.

How do we call the paid social media comment writers ?

(a)  

23.

One of the father of fake news writing was considered to be...

a)

Walter Lippmann

b)

G.LeBon

c)

Joseph Pulitzer

d)

Goebbels

24.

'The easiest way to manipulate great masses of people is by influencing their ...

a)

common sense

b)

mind

c)

emotions

d)

national pride