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[meta title:"Fake News" description:"Exploring new ways to create interactive documents" /]
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## Fake it till you make it
# HOW TO FAKE NEWS
### By: Lingyun Li, Jiayi Suo, Jingyan Zhang
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###### Can you recognize fake news?
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This section is designed to help you recognize fake news. There are five news articles for you to judge. Once you hit the right choice, you would gain 10 points.
There are three basic steps to play this game:
1. Read the article.
2. Click on True if you think it's a real story.
3. Click on False if you think it's fake.
Here are some tips and suggestions for spotting fake news:
1. Be careful of those flamboyant adjectives, which are rarely used in real news articles.
2. If the article quotes a source, do the person’s words seem to match their title? Some fake articles have started putting words in the mouths of respected officials.
3. Always remenber to check on the source, can you recognize them?
4. Read the whole article, does the content match the title? Is the title just bluffing?
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###### Where are the wrong places?
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This piece of news is fake news but looks like real. You would be
fooled easily if don't pay attention. Apply the tips mentioned in
the upper section carefully and see if you find any unreal places in
the article. If you guess wrongly in the last game, this part might can help you learn how to apply those tips. Stay patient and go through the article with skeptical and critical attitude would help!
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###### what can we get from the fake news dataset?
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Here in the word cloud, we present some most frequently used key words in fake news in Octobor and November of 2016. News in these two months is mostly politics related because of the election. Try clicking on the word you are interested in!
Then check out the chart on the right side! The horizontal axis shows the attitude of the fake news, there are three categories: negative, netural and positive. The vertical axis shows how many times fake news with this attitude are created.
See? Rarely can you find any positive news, right? Even neutral news are not that much. Considering the special time period when all this news appeared, it's totally reasonable and understandable that it was extremely easy for readers to be excited when reading, sharing and talking about it. Readers love horrible and unbelievable stories and news and that's how they get used by campaign team, public relations team and fake news generator sites.
It's important to keep skeptical and critical when reading eye-catching news when related special and important events are undergoing.
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###### Generate your own fake news
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Using the generator below, you can generate some fake news. Overall, the best way to spot a fake news is to go behind the scenes and dive into the mind of a fake news distributor.
Your credibility would go down if you post or make fake news, but the section's narrator aims to let you forget your morals and profit off fear. That's how you would have the gut faking news.
The real point of this section is to remind you that fake news relies on evoking strong emotions so that you act immediately without checking the facts, but it also gives you insight into spotting bots and liars more efficiently.
There's no basic steps or important tips to play this little game. Please, just follow the narrator and enjoy generating fake news.
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###### Conclusion
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No one is safe from fake news, but there is always hope for everyone to become a better fact checker and fake news finder. By guessing if a piece is true and even becoming a fake news editor or publisher, we hope you can have a better recognition of fake news and stay safe from it.
Here's our final advice for you to spot them and we believe that you have at least got a sense of them after going through our games and analytics.
1. Consider the source!
2. Always, always stay calm, discriminative, critical and wise when reading news. Don't be fooled by strong emotion and extreme attitude conveyed by the news. Be skeptical of exaggerated and extreme adjectives used in the news.
3. Don't share, post eye-catching news sloppyly, your morals and credibility shouldn't be harmed by fake news！
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