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Stay informed with Informable! Informable is a great resource for building literacy skills and learning to distinguish fact from fiction. Download the app today for free!

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Thank you for taking part in our Know Your Facts campaign!! We hope you learned how to Ask questions, Verify sources, and Share your knowledge when it comes to news literacy!

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Thanks for stopping by each of our tables this week!

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The Know Your Facts Op Ed was run in The Talon this past week! You can check it out at @OCTalon!

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Thank you Ben Watson for speaking to OC students this morning about the importance of news literacy!

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Learn more about news literacy and the amount of misinformation that is spread daily by reading our news release on @OCtalon!

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Congratulations to the women of Lambda Chi Zeta for winning our club competition! You will be receiving an email soon about the pizza party!

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To be able to identify misinformation, we need to be able to evaluate the content we are exposed to. Here are 3 more types of misinformation to consider when evaluating news on the internet!

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To be able to identify misinformation, we need to be able to evaluate the content we are exposed to. Here are 2 different types of misinformation to consider when evaluating news on the internet!

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Former OC student and D.C. journalist Ben Watson is set to speak to OC students via Zoom on Monday, March 6. Watson will walk through his process of evaluating and verifying information his daily D Brief email and regular Defense One Radio podcast.

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Did you know that there is a lot of room for improvement in news literacy?

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Stay alert and recognize signs of deceptive media, news and info!

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Follow these instructions and post to your story by midnight on Friday, March 3 for your clubs chance to win pizza at your next meeting!

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Congratulations to our winners today! You will be receiving an email with information on how to pick up your giftcard!

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Make sure to stop by our table to learn more about @NewsLitProject and how to #KnowYourFacts

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Why should we take news literacy more seriously? Just take a look at the facts!

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Nothing says facts like a dictionary definition!

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5 SIGNS OF MISINFORMATION:
-Unknown web addresses
-Obvious bias by the author(s)
-Dramatic headlines
-Questionable date(s) on the story
-Quotes from different times and locations

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DID YOU KNOW?
-Misinformation is used to refer to misleading info created or disseminated without a deliberate intent to cause harm.
-A fake news website can spread fake news faster than real news.
-Dictionary.com named misinformation the 2018 word of the year.