Describe what you do in five words or less:

Explain interesting things with pictures.
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What makes a ‘trusted’ source?

A good practice is to ask your sources how they know what they claim to know.

If they are describing an event that happened, did they witness it take place? If not, how do they know it took place?

What expertise do they have? How long have they studied the thing they claim to know about? What do other experts say about their work?





How do you fact check information?

Find documents, research papers, data.

Call up witnesses and experts and ask them if something is true.

Live in fear that you will get something wrong.





Free press means ________________

Journalists have the power to report the truth without interference from the government or commercial ownership.





Going beyond headlines: why should we?

The headline is just to sell the story, but it usually doesn't contain much information.

You can't expect a headline alone to teach you something new.



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Tips for spotting fake news?

Trust a news report in proportion to the amount and strength of evidence it presents to support its assertions.

Watch out for your own biases: the more you want a story to be true, the more rigorously you should inspect its evidence.





What's your favourite verb?
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'To be' are 'to do' are pretty cool. They are the verbs from which all other verbs seem to originate.

Watch out for your own biases: the more you want a story to be true, the more rigorously you should inspect its evidence.

–Harry Stevens
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