2.2: The Facts about Fact Checking
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Assignment
In addition to the overarching assignment of keeping track of the questions and criteria we should be using in our evaluation (which we will compile in a set of guidelines for ourselves in class on Wednesday), answer the following questions. You will use these answers for the Digital Information Assessment assignment on Blackboard.
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"Better __________ leads to better ___________ ___________ (two words) which leads to a better ___________."
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True/False. One of the main criteria non-professional fact checkers used for website reliability was "how official it looked".
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“The sheer existence of ___________ is not enough to verify a claim. The absence of ____________ is reason to be skeptical of its veracity until you can verify it.”