{"id":1124,"date":"2018-03-05T23:51:45","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T23:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/lida100\/?page_id=1124"},"modified":"2018-03-05T23:51:45","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T23:51:45","slug":"tasks-fact-checking-challenge","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/lida100\/unit-4\/web-literacy-for-fact-checking\/tasks-fact-checking-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Tasks &#8211; Fact-checking challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\" class=\"mw-body container\" role=\"main\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<div class=\"panel\">\n<div class=\"panel-body\">\n<div id=\"bodyContent\">\n<div id=\"mw-content-text\" lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"mw-content-ltr\">\n<ol>\n<li> Choose a topical news item or issue of interest. Your Facebook or Twitter feed is a good place to start, or use <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/webliteracy.pressbooks.com\/chapter\/using-buzzsumo-to-find-highly-viral-stories\/\">Using Buzzmo<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n<li> Search the blog sphere for a suitable post for fact-checking using <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blogsearchengine.org\/\">blogsearchengine.org<\/a> or <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/blogsearch.google.com\">blogsearch.google.com<\/a>. For the purposes of this challenge:\n<ul>\n<li> Assertions claiming some &#8220;fact&#8221; are good candidates for this exercise.\n<\/li>\n<li> Choose a source you are not familiar with, that is, avoid posts from national newspapers of record.\n<\/li>\n<li> Don&#8217;t select the first item from the search list, review a few posts to find something interesting and suitable for fact-checking analysis.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li> Restate the issue in the form of a question, for example:\n<ul>\n<li>Do speed cameras reduce the crash rate?\n<\/li>\n<li>Is it better to go to university or college?\n<\/li>\n<li>Are e-cigarettes as harmful as smoking tobacco?\n<\/li>\n<li>Does red wine compound kill colon cancer?\n<\/li>\n<li>Will drinking coffee make you live longer?\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li> Apply the four fact-checking moves covered in this learning pathway to evaluate the post (i.e. check for previous work, go upstream, read laterally and circle back if required).\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCPU time usage: 0.005 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.008 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 1\/1000000\nPreprocessor generated node count: 4\/1000000\nPost\u2010expand include size: 0\/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 0\/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 1\/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0\/100\n--><\/p>\n<p><!-- Saved in parser cache with key wikiedu-mw_:pcache:idhash:182192-0!*!*!*!*!*!* and timestamp 20180305235143 and revision id 1033253\n -->\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"visualClear\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<ul class=\"pager\">\n<li class=\"previous\">\n            <a href=\"\/lida100\/unit-4\/web-literacy-for-fact-checking\/start-fact-checking-challenge\">\u2190 Previous<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<li class=\"next\">\n            <a href=\"\/lida100\/unit-4\/web-literacy-for-fact-checking\/outputs-fact-checking-challenge\">Next \u2192<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<footer>\n<br \/>\n<\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Choose a topical news item or issue of interest. Your Facebook or Twitter feed is a good place to start, or use Using Buzzmo. Search the blog sphere for a suitable post for fact-checking using blogsearchengine.org or blogsearch.google.com. For the purposes of this challenge: Assertions claiming some &#8220;fact&#8221; are good candidates for this exercise. 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