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Social Media: Spotting Fake News

The document discusses ways for people to identify fake news or hoaxes that are spread on social media. It provides tips such as checking the source and date of information, verifying details, and paying attention to titles, writing format, and image/video context before sharing news on social platforms.

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Social Media: Spotting Fake News

The document discusses ways for people to identify fake news or hoaxes that are spread on social media. It provides tips such as checking the source and date of information, verifying details, and paying attention to titles, writing format, and image/video context before sharing news on social platforms.

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Ilma Nafiah
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fight hoaxes

on social media
One of the means of disseminating
information that is loved by modern
society is social media, because it can
be used easily and quickly to share
information. However, there is a lot of THINK BEFORE SHARE
fake news circulating on social media
and the public is expected to be able to If you are in doubt about the
recognize such information before information received, you should
sharing it with others. not share the information.

DON'T BELIEVE EASILY


INVESTIGATE
News obtained via social THE SOURCE
media should not be
directly believed or used as Make sure the news
a reference for making is written by a
conclusions or decisions. reliable source that
has a good
reputation and
PAY ATTENTION TO THE accuracy.
TITLE AND CONTENTS

Fake news often has titles


that attract attention SITE ADDRESS
(clickbait). Double check
the contents of the Many fake news
information in detail, don't sites pretend to
be fooled by just the title
be authentic news
sources by slightly
CHECK THE PROOF changing their
site addresses.
Check the sources of CHECK THE DATE
information listed,
cross-check the Fake news may CHECK THE
evidence presented to contain an IMAGE OR VIDEO
assess its accuracy unreasonable
. timeline, even Fake news often contains
WRITING FORMAT
though the events manipulated images or
are not necessarily videos. Pay attention to
related to each
Many fake news the context and origin of
other.
sites have the image or video.
misspellings or
have poor and
unusual layouts
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