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Dealing with fake news and disinformation - useful websites

- Spot the Troll - can you recognise fake social media accounts, created to spread misleading information? You can test yourself here: https://spotthetroll.org/start
- 25 years of Photoshop - can you distinguish between real photos and photoshopped ones? Here is an opportunity to check your observation abilities: https://landing.adobe.com/en/na/products/creative-cloud/69308-real-or-photoshop/index.html
- Fake or Foto? - similar to the previous one - you have to decide whether the photo is real or computer generated. Available here: https://area.autodesk.com/fakeorfoto/
- News Literacy - here you can learn how to sort facts from fiction and how to spot misinformation https://newsliteracy.ca/activities/fakeout/
- How to spot fake news? - video available here https://www.commonsense.org/education/asset/video/video-how-to-spot-fake-news
- BBC iReporter - imagine you're a BBC reporter. Your task is to decide what should and what shouldn't be published on BBC's social media. Click here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-8760dd58-84f9-4c98-ade2-590562670096
- Get Bad News - in this game you become a fake news creator. Check it out: https://www.getbadnews.com/droggame_book/junior/#intro
- Reality Check - thanks to this game you can learn how to check if something you found on the Internet is fake or real (available in English and in French): https://mediasmarts.ca/sites/mediasmarts/files/games/reality-check/index.html#/sites/mediasmarts/files/games/reality-check/
- Fakey - a game aiming to teach media literacy and presenting how people interact with misinformation: https://fakey.osome.iu.edu/
- NewsFeed Defenders - this game will teach you how to evaluate sources online: https://www.factcheck.org/newsfeed-defenders/
- Interland: Reality River - a game developed by Google's Be Internet Awesome Initiative teaches how to deal with phishing https://beinternetawesome.withgoogle.com/en_us/interland/landing/reality-river
- Factitious - your task is to read short news and swipe right if you think the article is real or left if you think it's fake http://factitious.augamestudio.com/#/

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