{"id":12422,"date":"2016-12-05T16:11:35","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T16:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/?p=12422"},"modified":"2018-05-09T15:28:53","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T15:28:53","slug":"fiu-professor-dont-fall-for-fake-news-here-are-some-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/2016\/12\/05\/fiu-professor-dont-fall-for-fake-news-here-are-some-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"FIU professor: Don\u2019t fall for fake news! Here are some tips."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As with other things in life, Professor Fred Blevens believes it\u2019s important to practice safe news.<\/p>\n<p>Blevens teaches communication in the FIU <a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.proofpoint.com\/v2\/url?u=http-3A__fiu.us1.list-2Dmanage1.com_track_click-3Fu-3Dd13d9ca5483e1889af5c1cd91-26id-3D6672cd0c51-26e-3De917e7dec5&amp;d=AwMFaQ&amp;c=1QsCMERiq7JOmEnKpsSyjg&amp;r=cqYlDKiDpcBR53MoabkQKQ&amp;m=EZfQAWaNCvOTIgVKnmyOFajm_400SeBmfZW9nzqVdk0&amp;s=1lEAjpa0XZQaF0qNSxu-QJOUdBnHNF9BaqYA2oZTfzg&amp;e=\">College of Communication, Architecture + The Arts<\/a> and has devoted the last 10 years of his career to news literacy research and education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are seeing a return to how political coverage was in the 1800s \u2013 almost all of it was partisan,\u201d said Blevens. \u201cOur founding fathers made sure that all political speech was protected \u2013 even the erroneous and misleading. In the context of politics, you can say just about anything and you don\u2019t have to back it up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Google and Facebook recently announced measures aimed at cutting off revenue streams for fake news sites, after the two Internet companies came under heavy criticism for the role fake news on their sites might have played in influencing the U.S. presidential election. However, there are a few things that news consumers can do to guard against falling prey to partisan and fake news making the rounds on the Internet. Here are Blevens\u2019 top five tips:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.\u00a0Consume a healthy and varied news diet. <\/strong>Build yourself a good news feed from a variety of credible sources. Know the difference between commentary and news coverage.<br \/>\n<strong>2. Dedicate 20-30 minutes a day to being informed. <\/strong>News consumption can take place in one sitting or throughout the day.<br \/>\n<strong>3. Have a few go-to sites to check claims.<\/strong> Blevens likes Snopes.com, PolitiFact.com and Google.<br \/>\n<strong>4. Appreciate Satire. <\/strong>Satire can be some of the best political commentary. There\u2019s nothing wrong with reading fake news, as long as you know it\u2019s fake.<br \/>\n<strong>5. Be careful what you share on social media.<\/strong> Share news from credible sources. If you share satire or fake news make sure it is clearly labeled as such.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI tell my students that it\u2019s important to read across ideologies. That\u2019s how you are able to evaluate and decide what enters your news diet,\u201d Blevens said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>via <a href=\"http:\/\/news.fiu.edu\/2016\/12\/fiu-professor-dont-fall-for-fake-news-here-are-some-tips\/106781\">FIU News<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As with other things in life, Professor Fred Blevens believes it\u2019s important to practice safe news. Blevens teaches communication in the FIU College of Communication, Architecture + The Arts and has devoted the last 10 years of his career to news literacy research and education. \u201cWe are seeing a return to how political coverage was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":12423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[374],"class_list":["post-12422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-school-of-communication-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15394,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12422\/revisions\/15394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}