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How to Spot Fake News - FactCheck.org

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    Fake news is nothing new.
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    But bogus stories can reach more people
    more quickly via social media
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    than would good old-fashioned viral emails
    could accomplish in years past.
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    A lot of those viral claims
    aren't "news" at all,
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    but fiction, satire
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    and efforts to fool readers into thinking,
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    they're for real.
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    Here are some strategies
    to shield yourself from fake news.
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    Are you familiar with the source?
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    Is it legitimate?
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    Has it been reliable in the past?
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    If not, you may not want to trust it.
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    If a provocative headline
    drew your attention,
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    read a little further before you decide
    to pass along the shocking information.
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    Even in legitimate news stories,
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    the headline doesn't always tell
    the whole story.
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    But fake news,
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    particularly efforts to be satirical,
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    can include several
    revealing signs in the text.
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    One fake story even attributed
    a quote to a dolphin.
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    If that had been real,
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    you could argue they buried the lede.
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    Another telltale sign of a fake story
    is often the byline,
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    if there even is one.
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    And in some cases,
    the authors are not even real.
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    One story was credited to a "doctor"
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    who won "fourteen Peabody awards
    and a handful of Pulitzer Prizes,"
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    which would be very impressive
    if it wasn't also totally made up.
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    Many times these bogus stories
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    will cite official
    or official-sounding sources,
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    but once you look into it,
    the source doesn't back up the claim.
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    Some false stories aren't completely fake,
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    but rather distortions of real events.
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    These mendacious claims
    can take a legitimate news story
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    and twist what it says
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    or even claim that something
    that happened long ago
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    is related to current events.
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    Once deceptive website took a story
    that was over a year old from CNN
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    and slapped on a new,
    misleading headline and publication date.
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    So on top of deception,
    there is copyright infringement.
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    Remember, there is such a thing as satire.
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    Normally, it's clearly labeled as such,
    and sometimes it's even funny.
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    But it isn't the news.
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    And then there's the more
    debatable forms of satire,
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    designed to pull one over on the reader.
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    These posts are also designed
    to encourage clicks,
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    and generate money for the creator
    through ad revenue.
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    But they aren't news.
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    We know this is difficult.
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    Confirmation bias leads people
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    to put more stock in information
    that confirms their beliefs
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    and discount information that doesn't.
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    But the next time
    you're automatically appalled
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    at some social media posts
    concerning, say, a politician you oppose,
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    take a moment to check it out.
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    Try this simple test:
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    What other stories have been posted
    to the "news" website
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    that is the source of the story
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    that just popped up
    in your social media feed?
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    You may be predisposed to believe
    a story about a politician you don't like,
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    but if the alleged "news" site
    also features a story
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    about "guardians from Antarctica
    retaliating against America
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    by hitting New Zealand
    with an earthquake",
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    maybe you should think twice
    before sharing.
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    And yes, that earthquake story
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    is a real example
    of a fake story that popped up.
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    We know you're busy,
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    and some of this debunking takes time.
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    But fact checkers get paid
    to do this kind of work.
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    Between FactCheck.org,
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    Snopes.com,
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    the Washington Post Fact Checker,
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    and PolitiFact.com,
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    it's likely at least one
    has already fact-checked
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    the latest viral claim
    to pop up in your social media news feed.
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    And remember:
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    News readers themselves
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    remain the first line of defense
    against fake news.
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    To see more, go to: FactCheck.org
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    Subtitles by Maurício Kakuei Tanaka
Title:
How to Spot Fake News - FactCheck.org
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