What is fake news? And how do we teach students about it?

Abstract

Today, we are “surfing” on various social networks or newspapers, such as Facebook and Twitter, on television and on the radio. We keep in touch with letters of our friends or conversations, or by phone
with our neighbors and colleagues. Prior to that, we suspected that some of this news and information
was wrong, which is misinformation. We called it “propaganda” or “gossip” or “false messages”. Therefore,
the fact that information is false is the main problem that created the information age. In this article,
the authors argue that the general term “false news” that we use today is that for ordinary citizens, and
even for professional journalists, are becoming more and more difficult to determine the truth, since
today’s sources of information are becoming more and more more. In addition, there is a manipulation
of information. Although there are facts about these events, the content may be false. The authors of the
article argue that these problems have become similar in nature. The article presents examples of information verification in Kazakhstan and Georgia.