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Fake
News
at WUT
@lmalita
Gabriela GROSSECK
gabriela.grosseck@e-uvt.ro
@ggrosseck
Pope Francis
Oxford Dictionary
Fake News Types
1. satire or parody ("no intention to
cause harm but has potential to fool")
2. false connection ("when headlines,
visuals or captions don't support the
content")
3. misleading content ("misleading use
of information to frame an issue or an
individual")
4. false context ("when genuine content
is shared with false contextual
information")
5. imposter content ("when genuine
sources are impersonated" with false,
made-up sources)
6. manipulated content ("when genuine
information or imagery is manipulated
to deceive", as with a "doctored" photo)
7. fabricated content ("new content is
100% false, designed to deceive and
do harm")
Claire Wardle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vckz6EAn30Y
Snopes: snopes.com/
PolitiFact: politifact.com
Fact Check: factcheck.org/
BBC Reality Check: bbc.com/news/reality-check
Channel 4 Fact Check: channel4.com/news/factcheck
Bellingcat's
Online
Investigatio
n Toolkit
https://www.factual.ro/
https://rubrika.ro/
https://verificasursa.ro/
http://www.cdep.ro/pls/proiecte/upl_pck2015.proiect?cam=2&idp=17607
https://www.ghideducatiemedia.ro/
https://cyberm.ro/
Fake Information on Academia??
Foto: : Coralia Sulea
Spotting fake / bad scholars
1. PREDATORY PUBLISHING (journals or
conferences): “predatory” for-profit open
access publishers
• In some cases criminal actors go so far as to
create fake incarnations of real journals to
steal submission fees.
• Even the peer review process itself is
increasingly under attack with fake reviewers
and even “peer review rings.”
Spotting bad scholars
2. ACADEMIC FRAUD: Even in publications that
are not predatory, some academic publications
still contain false or misleading information.
* sometimes even fake papers slip through the
supposedly rigorous peer-review process
3. MISLEADING STATISTICS. Data Leaks (real
data mixed with untrue or biased data). When
statistics are manipulated or misused, they can
make fake news even more powerful
(See the MOOC from Future Learn, Making Sense of
Data in the Media)
Spotting bad scholars
4. FAKE POLL. If there isn’t something on the
website that tells why the pollster is conducting
the poll, something is probably up.
5. ACADEMIC INACURANCIES. Review process is
been hijacked by fake reviewers ->Diluting
academic literature.
6. USE specific tools to choose journals to
publish/conference to attend:
(3rd year)
to be presented at the 14th International Scientific Conference “eLearning and Software for Education”, Bucharest, April 19-20, 2018
short bio-data
• October-December
2017/2018/2019
• WUT LMS (online
questionnaire)
• 452 respondents
• 4 specializations:
Communication Studies /
Journalism / Psychology and
Educational Sciences
The universe of fake online content: who and why is producing it, which contexts
Master thesis
Integrating MOOCs
about fake news in
academic courses
https://www.coursera.org/learn/news-literacy
https://classroom.google.com
Moise GURAN
30 January 2017
Denisa RIFAI International student event approaching the topics of DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP and
FAKE NEWS in European context.12 December 2017
16 May 2017
Next steps
• Academic Fake News Observatory (research,
reports, studies, guides etc.)
• OER library
• Short courses f2f for teachers
• Opening the MOOC on fake news this spring
• Partnership with industry
• Students’ high school specific activities:
(online)courses, workshops, camps etc.
https://west-university-timisoara.teachable.com/p/fake-news
Thank you for your attention!