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Acknowledgement
Foreword
Lynn Caldwell
How To Use This Book
Introduction
1.0 Learning Outcomes
1.1 Information Evolution
1.2 Information Overload
1.3 Information Disorder
1.4 The History of Disinformation
1.5 Moving Forward: Information Literacy
1.6 Discussion Questions
2.0 Learning Outcomes
2.1 What is News?
2.2 Journalism and Editing
2.3 News in the Internet Age
2.4 Fake News: The Term that Can No Longer be Used
2.5 Sources Mistaken for News
2.6 Moving Forward: Media Literacy
2.7 Discussion Questions
3.0 Learning Outcomes
3.1 Search Engines
3.2 Algorithms
3.3 Algorithms on Social Media Feeds
3.4 Sock Puppets and Bots on Social Media
3.5 Google and Facebook are Big, But False Information is Bigger
3.6 Moving Forward: Digital Literacy
3.7 Discussion Questions
4.0 Learning Outcomes
4.1 Social Media Defined
4.2 Social Media and Disinformation
4.3 Social Media Influencers
4.4 When Influence Turns to Harm
4.5 It’s Not All Bad
4.6 Moving Forward: Meta literacy
4.7 Discussion Questions
5.0 Learning Outcomes
5.1 Big Tobacco
5.2 Evaluation Tools and Frameworks
5.3 Fact Checking Websites
5.4 Emotional Assessments
5.5 Checklists
5.6 Lateral Reading
5.7 The Journalistic Approach
5.8 Moving Forward
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