The document discusses ways to spot fake news. It shares that the respondent spread misinformation about COVID-19 early in the pandemic. It states that the most useful way to spot fake news is to check the source and verify the type of website publishing the information. Another way is to check the context of the information and ensure it provides relevant details like time, place, or data. Cross-checking is defined as verifying information with other sources. The document provides a hypothetical example of fake news about monkeys spreading smallpox in China.

1. 1 Have you ever spread fake
news?
Yes, when star the pandemic, I
share an infographic about the
covid – 19.
In that infographic said that the
coronavirus not was a virus so
lethal as other virus and that its
percentage was only 3%.
2
Mention which you consider
the most useful way to spot
fake news according to the
video
3
Mention another useful way to
spot fake news according to
the video
4
How could you define the
term “cross check” according
to the video.
5
Make up a fake new,
something that results
credible.
The most useful way to spot fake
news is the number 1 “check the
source”, because if the people
search in what space is
uploaded, we can find the type of
website in where is published the
information. Although, is
necesary doubt also the mass
media traditionals.
Another useful way to spot fake news is check
the context of the information, because the
time, place or data that are around are very
important.
As example in 2016, in Colombia there was
fake news about the “plebiscito” for the peace
between the colombian state and guerrilla of the
FARC-EP; in this moment circulated news
without context.
I understand the term
“cross check” as
verify the information
by way cross with
other sources of
information.
Attention!, the monkey's
smallpox was created in
a laboratory of China,
this country try created
other pandemic after the
covid´s pandemic.
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TUTOR: Luis Edgar Jiménez
Student: Javier Danilo Murcia González