Fake news is more than a social media menace—it’s threatening critical thinking skills needed to develop information literacy. Combined with the impulse to share exciting, shocking and alarming stories, fake news is shaping—and distorting—perceptions, especially in younger demographics. In this video, viewers learn what drives fake news, how to spot it and how to de-bunk it. They’ll see how to distinguish between bias and accuracy, and opinion from fact. Vignettes that mimic online feeds and searches show how to detect completely false stories, slanted information, pure propaganda and misused data.

Originally released by Motion Masters, 2018. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on December 08, 2017.

Fake News History (4:02); --Internet News (4:07); -- Consider the Source (6:55); -- Read Beyond the Headlines (6:22); -- Credits: Fake News: Part 1 (1:20); -- History and news (8:15); -- Fake News 1 (13:13); -- Types of Fake News and Assessing an Article (5:41); -- How to Recognize Fake News: Part 1-Clip 1 (2:51); -- How to Recognize Fake News: Part 1-Clip 2-Five Types of Fake News (0:58); -- Author and Source Credibility (6:52); -- Author and Source Credibility 2 (6:50); -- Internet news: Fact vs fake (4:04); -- Internet News: Fact or Fake (4:07); -- Internet News: Fake vs Fact (7:35); -- Internet News: Fact vs fake (7:02); -- Internet News: Fact or Fake? (7:45); -- Internet News: Recognizing Fake News (7:44); -- Internet News: Recognizing Fake News (7:44); -- Read Beyond Headlines (6:21);.