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Media-Literacy Week — Homework
Find one real claim from the news or online this week to evaluate using this week's four questions.
- 1.Name the four questions used to evaluate a source.
- 2.Explain what lateral reading is and why it can be faster than reading a suspicious source more closely within itself.
- 3.Evaluate your chosen real claim using all four questions, a sentence or two each.
- 4.In four or more sentences, explain why a source failing one of the four checks does not automatically make it false, and what it should mean instead.
- 5.Why might a professionally designed website still contain false information?
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