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Digital Forensics:How to Fact-Check Like a Pro
Peter Adams, SVP of education
April 30, 2020
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Who We Are
Our Mission
The News Literacy Project, a nonpartisan national education nonprofit, empowers educators to teach students the skills they need to become smart, active consumers of news and other information and engaged, informed participants in our democracy.
Our Vision
News literacy is embedded in the American education experience.
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www.newslit.org
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Check it out atnewslit.org/educators/sift/
Real-time teachable moments
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AUTHENTIC
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Transmissibility
Persistence
Connectedness
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Pandemic “Infodemic”• Thrives on unsuspecting
people
• 20 seconds goes a long way
• Social distancing, stop the spread, flatten the curve (your choices affect others)
• Overwhelming medical infrastructure
• Thrives on unsuspecting people
• 20 seconds goes a long way
• Social distancing, stop the spread, flatten the curve (your choices affect others)
• Overwhelming information infrastructure
• No vaccine available • Vaccine available!
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Skill #1:
Lateral reading
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Related Skills and Concepts:.
• Click restraint
• Standards-based vs. user-generated
• Going “upstream” (using captions/credits, date ranges, advanced search functions to work your way back to the source)
• CTRL-T
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Skill #2:
Using web archivers
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Skill #3:
Critical observation
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firstdraft.org
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Observation Checklist.
• Architecture and landscape
• Clothing
• Climate/weather
• Any visible text, esp. business names, phone numbers, street names/addresses
• Signs, esp. municipal (street, bus route, etc.) and landmark
• License plates
• Distinctive details..
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Skill #4:
Reverse image search
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images.google.com
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images.google.com
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images.google.comimages.google.com
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images.google.com
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tineye.com
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yandex.com/images
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On Mac:Shift + command + 4
On Windows: Windows + shift + S
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Skill #5:
Geolocation
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BBC Africa Eye: Anatomy of a Killing
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Check it out atnewslit.org/educators/sift/
Real-time teachable moments
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http://bit.ly/NewsLitTrust
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News literacy “brain trainer” mobile app
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Thank you.
newslit.org
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bit.ly/NLPpdsurvey
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Let’s talk.