Learn how to debunk Internet rumors it’s good to get familiar

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Learn how to debunk Internet rumors, it’s good to get familiar with Snopes.com, which in April, 2020 was featured on the TV show “Jeopardy.Preview the document”

Learn how to debunk Internet rumors, it’s good to get familiar

Firstly, learn how to debunk Internet rumors, it’s good to get familiar with Snopes.com, which in April, 2020 was featured on the TV show “Jeopardy.Preview the document”

Read Wikipedia’s (no date) entry on Snopes.comPreview the document.

Read Eddy’s (2014) article, “Meet the Mysterious Creator of Rumor-Debunking Site, Snopes.comPreview the document.”
Skim-read through FactCheck.org’s (no date) fact-checking of rumors about the creators of Snopes.comPreview the document.
From Snopes.com (Links to an external site.), find out the truth about five non-political Internet rumors or urban legends that are interesting to you.

By “non-political” we mean NOT “pertaining to the government or the public affairs of a country,” meaning not about government, government officials, such as Congress members, or candidates (past or present) for political office.

Some examples of non-political Internet rumors or urban legends. Which you can use for this assignment, are the following: Is throwing rice at weddings bad for birds?Preview the document If you go swimming less than an hour after you eat, will you get stomach cramps? If you swallow chewing gum, will it take seven years to digest? Does our hair grow back darker or thicker after we shave it? Do we use only ten percent of our brains? Did Coca-Cola used to contain cocaine?

To learn how not to be trick by satire websites:

Look through this list of satire websitesPreview the document.
Watch
CNN’s Anderson Cooper (Links to an external site.)

Minimize Video
Admit to having been tricked by a satire website.
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You can access a transcript of this YouTube (or any YouTube) by following these directions.
Find two non-political instances, which are of interest to you, of other persons (besides Anderson Cooper) who have been tricked by a satire website.

Go to the Unit 2: Assignment #3 and #6 Discussion Board and make a new post of at least 200 words in which you do the following:
Describe the five non-political Internet rumors or urban legends that you found out about on Snopes.com.

Provide the link from Snopes.com for each Internet rumor or urban legend (using the technique you learned from the Course

How To so that your link will show up as actual text, rather than just a URL or the word, Link).

Explain why these Internet rumors or urban legends were of interest to you.

Describe the two non-political instances of persons (besides Anderson Cooper) who have been trick by a satire website.

Provide a link to each tricked-by-a-satire-website instances (using the technique you learned from the Course How To so that your link will show up as actual text, rather than just a URL or the word, Link).

Explain why these tricked-by-a-satire-website instances were of interest to you.