In order to create my own fake news story I searched current political events that seemed dramatic or too crazy to be true. Based on my findings; writing a story about the democratic party demanding Trump's impeachment seemed just crazy enough to be believable. While writing my article I included many red flags although some are more obvious than others.
The publisher of the article, msnbc.com.co, is not a real website. Yes MSNBC is a real and reliable source, but any website that uses ".co" at the end cannot be trusted. Next I referred to an event, a text, and quoted state representatives which were all partially or entirely untrue.
If one were to look at my first drafts and compare it to my last they'd be able to tell that I spent most of my time adding to the article instead of cutting it down at the end. This is because the more I worked with the writing the more ideas I'd get that I would want to include in the final draft.
To put our articles to the test we delivered them to middle schoolers and they decided wether or not the article was trust worthy. The student I worked with was initially convinced the story was true but together we discussed why that wasn't the case.
The publisher of the article, msnbc.com.co, is not a real website. Yes MSNBC is a real and reliable source, but any website that uses ".co" at the end cannot be trusted. Next I referred to an event, a text, and quoted state representatives which were all partially or entirely untrue.
If one were to look at my first drafts and compare it to my last they'd be able to tell that I spent most of my time adding to the article instead of cutting it down at the end. This is because the more I worked with the writing the more ideas I'd get that I would want to include in the final draft.
To put our articles to the test we delivered them to middle schoolers and they decided wether or not the article was trust worthy. The student I worked with was initially convinced the story was true but together we discussed why that wasn't the case.