CRAP DETECT UNTRUTHFUL NEWS

One article on you consider to be very good- New York Times
One article you consider to be only partially trustworthy- Yahoo Finance
One article you consider to be probably untrustworthy- Babylon Bee

  All of these articles are from some type of news website. The first one that I thought was accurate and considered to be good was in the New York Times website, the second one that was partially trustworthy was from Yahoo Finance, and the last one which is untrustworthy: The Babylon Bee. 
All three were well written and looked like actual news companies. The webpages all looked similar, they had a title, pictures, advertisements, and options to easily share them.
Some differences between them were the Babylon Bee didn't have an author, or links in the article to back it up, it also seemed far fetched. I had to do additional research to find out if it was true or not and it's not true. Both Yahoo Finance and the New York Times article had authors and links. The reason the Yahoo Finance article is only partially true is because they claimed  "Ford maintained that the layoffs were part of an ongoing reorganization plan and were not the product of losses resulting from new tariffs", that's false. Ford's CEO said that the company had lost $1 billion due to new tariffs on imported steel and aluminum, and the company is planning to lay off employees. The New York Times article had facts to back it up and the author Jim Tankersley has been covering politics and economics in Washington for over a decade.

What conclusions are you coming to about untruthful news?
Most untruthful news is not hard to spot if you do a little research. A Snopes is a website you can use to fact check articles: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ 
The purpose of the assignment is show us the difference between untrue, partially true, and trustworthy articles.
The key question at the heart of the assignment is, "are you able to see the difference between trustworthy and untrustworthy articles?"

This video has some strategies to help you spot fake news:

Comments

  1. UnknownOctober 22, 2018 at 1:20 AM

    Your statement "The reason the Yahoo Finance article is only partially true is because they claimed "Ford maintained that the layoffs were part of an ongoing reorganization plan and were not the product of losses resulting from new tariffs", that's false. Ford's CEO said that the company had lost $1 billion due to new tariffs on imported steel and aluminum, and the company is planning to lay off employees." showed great accuracy. You even had a fact to back up your claim.

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  2. UnknownOctober 22, 2018 at 5:30 PM

    Hi Elena,
    Each week you are to give feedback to two other learners form the PREVIOUS week...not the same week. As a result you will have a number of learners to choose form to give feedback. I hope this helps.
    Greg

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  3. AnonymousOctober 28, 2018 at 10:12 PM

    Your statement showed clarity when you said, "The New York Times article had facts to back it up and the author Jim Tankersley has been covering politics and economics in Washington for over a decade." I think this tied in with the purpose you where trying to get across very well and made it relevant with clarity.

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