C'est pour ça qu'il faut être très vigilant sur les réseaux sociaux ! Ce genre de fake news peut arriver dans n'importe quelle école, et peut toucher n'importe qui. Ca peut détruire des vies, et c'est pour cette raison qu'on a choisi ce sujet : ça fait parti de notre quotidien, on se sent concernées et on trouve que c'est important de sensibiliser et de mettre en garde les jeunes et même les adultes autour de nous.
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How to recognize fake news ?
This Instagram post was posted by an account claiming to be a high school gossip account. In this post, the author accuses one of the high school's teachers, Mr. Angus, of selling drugs to a student. He also proposes to reveal this student's name if we send a dm (a private message).
Instagram post
In this situation, we can recognize that this is a fake news thanks to many things : - The account is not credible and is not certified. It's managed by a high school student, and doesn't have many likes and followers. - There is no proof. The information was just posted without explaining the context, and without giving any details. - On the post, it is written that you have to send a private message to find out who is the student who bought drugs: it almost looks like a scam. - It's an information that only spreads in high school. If it were true, it would be serious and would have been covered by the media. In addition, there would have been reactions from teachers and the police. - The student who posted the fake news just wanted to attract attention. The video shows that he made it.
So, how to recognize fake news ?
In the video, we can see the screen of a student's phone, which is receiving a lot of notifications. These notifications are messages which talk about the news that was posted on Instagram by the account "highschool.gossip1234". People sending her messages are in shock about what they have learned. They're convinced that what they have read is true, and we can see that the news is spreading very quickly and easily, without having been checked.
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