Skip to Main Content
It looks like you're using Internet Explorer 11 or older. This website works best with modern browsers such as the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge. If you continue with this browser, you may see unexpected results.

Disinformation: fake news, propaganda & more: In Class

1. Read this article

Experts: California voter registration system 'highly susceptible' to fraud

Consider: Is this "fake news"? Why or why not? 

If it's not fake news, how would you describe it?

Credible or Clickbait?

Let's compare two news articles:

Source A

Source B

Objectives:

  •  identify characteristics of credible news sources.
  • critically examine news sources to determine credibility

Ukiah Campus: 707.468.3053 | Coast Center: 707.961.2200 | Lake Center: 707.263.4944 | North County Center: 707.459.6224
Email: Library Webmaster | Mendocino Community College

Powered by Springshare. Login to LibApps
https://libguides.mendocino.edu/c.php?g=726532&p=5186134
libguides.mendocino.edu
crawl=CC-MAIN-2022-49
24630
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:PB5XNKP3GEFANNU3TZWY6APGYG5D7G4X
<urn:uuid:d8dcac1f-77d2-4e36-8159-0fe622ffbf06>
2022-12-05T13:47:18Z
54.88.35.99
text/html
sha1:N7Y5J4ITY65HVHLBYNWZ4465LUW5FBQD
<urn:uuid:2f5685b9-082f-4161-92fd-ff04b178fffd>
https://libguides.mendocino.edu/c.php?g=726532&p=5186134
response
<urn:uuid:f71e491d-803b-4d97-a855-a4acb4ea5aa2>
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2022-49
publisher: Common Crawl
description: Wide crawl of the web for November/December 2022
operator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)
hostname: ip-10-67-67-146
software: Apache Nutch 1.19 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)
robots: checked via crawler-commons 1.4-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)
format: WARC File Format 1.1
conformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/