With the Fourth Estate in collision with the Fifth Estate of citizens on social media, how can we teach truthful reporting?
What is fake news and how can we teach our students not to be taken in by it, not to spread it and not to write it? I suggest going back to first principles of critical thinking: first by identifying how false information is created and spread, then by understanding why this happens, and finally by...
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Association for Journalism Education
2019
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| Online Access: | https://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/5410/1/social%20media%20article.pdf |