{"id":26524,"date":"2020-11-12T13:48:53","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T17:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insagrado.sagrado.edu\/?p=26524"},"modified":"2020-11-12T13:51:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T17:51:00","slug":"learn-to-spot-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insagrado.sagrado.edu\/en\/learn-to-spot-fake-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn to Spot Fake News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Personnel from the Madre Mar\u00eda Teresa Guevara Library show you how.<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/insagrado.sagrado.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Untitled-design-4-1-1024x576-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26525\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/insagrado.sagrado.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Untitled-design-4-1-1024x576-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/insagrado.sagrado.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Untitled-design-4-1-1024x576-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/insagrado.sagrado.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Untitled-design-4-1-1024x576-1-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By Liz Yanira Del Valle<br><\/strong><strong>Collaborator<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We generate and store so much information in the world today that placing all hard drives one on top of the other we would actually reach the Moon. This would seem like hyperbole or fake news, but is actually the result of a study conducted in 2013 by Digital Junior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With this introduction, Alejandro Escobar Nieves, the lead librarian in technical services at the <a href=\"https:\/\/biblioteca.sagrado.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Madre Mar\u00eda Teresa Guevara Library,<\/a> began the virtual workshop \u201cLearn to spot \u2018Fake News\u2019\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe amount of stored information is overwhelming,\u201d said the workshop leader after indicating that educators and librarians have a responsibility to provide guidance on the veracity of published news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To define what is false or fake news, Escobar Nieves, who is also a professor, quoted Eric Novotny of Penn State University Libraries, who understands it is <strong>a completely fabricated story<\/strong>. According to Novotny, many news stories exhibit some form of explicit or implicit bias, but they do not fall into the category of fake news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The quality of the content is crucial when determining if what you are seeing is fake news or not.<\/strong> In fact, Escobar Nieves\u2019 first recommendation was basic: <strong>one must have the ability to think critically in order to judge the reliability and credibility of the information received.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>\u201cYou can&#8217;t believe everything you read on the internet,\u201d he stressed.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The librarian then listed several reasons why fake news has proliferated:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The immediacy and globalization of the internet<\/li><li>The rise of social media<\/li><li>The creation of fake news becoming a business<\/li><li>Changes in reading habits (many people only read headlines)<\/li><li>Political, economic, and ideological interests<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>He also provided some clues that can help detect fake news:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Is the URL reliable?<\/li><li>Who is publishing it?<\/li><li>Look at the date<\/li><li>Does it contain links to support the argument?<\/li><li>Are they trying to sell something?<\/li><li>Always look for the article\u2019s main idea<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Likewise, <strong>Escobar Nieves recommended some websites that can help determine if news are fake<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.factcheck.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.factcheck.org<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/thetrustproject.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">thetrustproject.org<\/a><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newslit.org\" target=\"_blank\">newslit.org<\/a><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.adfontesmedia.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.adfontesmedia.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, Escobar Nieves showed examples of local and international fake news to explain its various types and the consequences that its dissemination often brings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personnel from the Madre Mar\u00eda Teresa Guevara Library show you how. 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