How Fake News Can Spread
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Upper-intermediate gap-filling exercise (words cut out of the text for students to fill)
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False news can spread at an incredible pace. Can we stop it? Can we avoid falling for it?
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How Fake News Can SpreadVideo length
3 minutes 42 seconds
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The above lesson is a great teaching resource for:Upper-intermediate (B2)
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This resource is intended for:Adults, High schoolers
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Published 07/04/2020
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1. Fill the gap.
There's a quote usuallyto the writer Mark Twain that goes,
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There's reason tothat Mark Twain ever said this at all,ironically, proving the point.
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And today, the quote, whoever said it, isthan ever before.
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… most media with globalconsisted of several major newspapers and networks which had the resources toinformation …
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Outlets like Reuters and the Associated Press thator rereport stories were relativelycompared to today.
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The speed with which information spreads now has created the ideal conditions for a phenomenon known as.
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This is when publication Amisinformation,
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It's also considered a form of circular reporting when multiple publications report on the samepiece of false information,
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… the 1998 publication of a singlepaper arguing that routine vaccination of children causes autism inspired an …
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Deliberatelychildren are now contracting contagious diseases that had been virtually eradicated in the United States,
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In aless dire example,
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… a joke article in theBritish Medical Journal entitled `` Energy Expenditure in Adolescents Playing New Generation …
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User-generated content, such as wikis, are also acontributer to circular reporting.
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As more writers come toon such pages for quick information,
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Recent advances in communication technology have had immeasurablein breaking down the barriers between information and …
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But our desire for quick answers maythe desire to be certain of their validity.
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And when thiscan be multiplied by billions of people around the world, nearly instantaneously, moreis in order.
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… searching for criticisms ofinformation,
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