News: Spotting Fake and False news

From the ABC Media Literacy site.

RMIT ABC Fact Check determines the accuracy of claims by politicians, public figures, advocacy groups and institutions engaged in the public debate.

It is a partnership between RMIT University and the ABC combining academic excellence and the best of Australian journalism to inform the public through an independent non-partisan voice.

Snopes is the internet’s go-to source for discerning what is true and what is total nonsense.
Enter a topic into the search box to see the latest information, e.g. Australian fires

Take this Observation Challenge and look at the photographs and see if you can determine where they were taken.
Using observation techniques and skills will help you to critically evaluate information sources and verify information.

Work your way through comparisons of FaceBook pages and try to determine which posts are fake. Select your choice by clicking the FaceBook image for an explanation.

Advances in artificial intelligence could soon make creating convincing fake audio and video – known as “deepfakes” – relatively easy. Making a person appear to say or do something they did not has the potential to take the war of disinformation to a whole new level.