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[NEWS] test how well you can spot fake news
McZealot:
BTW, this is kinda dumb as a quiz because the easiest way to check if news is fake is to look on Snopes or see if it's been corroborated at all. Reading 'real-sounding' facts and guessing if they are fabricated isn't a very reliable skill in the real world. You can also check the front-page of the site to see if all their stories are sensational garbage or actual journalism.
Wesley Williams:
--- Quote from: McZealot on July 06, 2017, 05:15:03 PM ---BTW, this is kinda dumb as a quiz because the easiest way to check is news is fake is to look on Snopes or see if it's been corroborated at all. You can also checks the front-page of the site and see if all of their stories are sensational garbage or actual journalism.
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Snopes?? Lmao
Also the entire point is it's a game, so you don't cheat and look up the answers.
I got 80% but some of these are bs. You can't pull from CNN and add it to the "news" category
SeventhSandwich:
--- Quote from: Wesley Williams on July 06, 2017, 05:40:46 PM ---Snopes?? Lmao
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Snopes is the most reliable online source for quick fact-checking. It always has been, and the only reason anyone mocks it nowadays is because a billionaire businessman decided to run for president and in the process made a stuffload of claims that were demonstrably false, which mandated responses from sites like Snopes. Idiots interpreted this shift in articles to be symptomatic of 'political bias' rather than being the result of having another idiot run for president.
Master Matthew²:
< Reads Title
< Turns on TV
< Flips channel to CNN
I win.
HellHound:
how to spot fake news in 2 easy steps
1: identify whether or not the journalist is a liberal or a conservative
2: if they are a liberal, disregard any statements they make; it's fake news