One problem people sometimes have when it comes to getting reliable news information is that they can't seem to always tell if their news source is reliable or not. Well, thanks to Christina Nagler, from Harvard Summer school, we are given really good tips for spotting fake news! A couple of ways you can check your information is by checking the credibility of the news source, or even checking the sources' citations (Nagler 2020). If you're still having a hard time with your sources information you can always visit fact checking websites like FactCheck.org (Nagler 2020). Even though there are so many ways for us to check our sources, fake news sometimes still becomes viral, but how? One reason Nagler mentions is that some headlines really grab our attention and with social media we are easily able to share the headlines with our friends and family, but it's not as easy to evaluate or even read the actual article (Nagler 2020). Nagler also points out that people are more likely to accept information that goes with their beliefs and disagree with information that doesn't, according to Pew Research (Nagler 2020). Since more of our news is popping up on our social media feeds we really need to be careful about where we get our information from, because when you receive news from social media the headlines sometimes can twist the story. So if you are ever curious about the reliability of a news source, there's always a way to check it.
https://www.summer.harvard.edu/inside-summer/4-tips-spotting-fake-news-story
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