Truth Untruth?

 Fabrication
 Accurate
 Conspiracy theory
 Doubtful
 Credible
 Reliable
 Evidence
 Fiction
 New outlets (media outlets)
 Impressionable
 Detect
 Bias

 How do you get your news stories? How do you know they are reliable and accurate?
 What is fake news? Can you think of any recent examples?
 What do people mean when they say we live in the post-truth?
A post-truth situation is one in which people are less influenced by factual information than by their emotions
or by beliefs they already hold.

 How do most people get their news in your country?

 How has social media changed the way we get and share the news?
 What persuasive strategies make fake news seem to be true?
 What makes a topic a good choice for fake news?
 What audiences are likely to believe a fake news story?
 How does cultural background effect whether an audience believes fake
news?
 What personal experiences could affect whether an audience believes fake
news?
 What are potential consequences when fake news goes viral? Do you think
you could spot fake news or would you be fooled? Why or why not?
  Have you ever fallen for “fake news”?
 Explain at least two ways fake news could affect the results of future
elections or may have affected the recent presidential election?
Bias: the action of supporting or opposing a particular person or thing in an unfair way,
because of allowing personal opinions to influence your judgment:

If you're biased toward something, then you lean favorably toward it; you tend to think
positively of it. Meanwhile, if you're biased against something, then you lean negatively against
it; you tend to think poorly of it.

 There is a clear bias against foreign applicants

 There was a clear racial bias in the selection of candidates.

 The teacher seems to have a bias towards the girls in her class.
  President Trump believes the media possesses a terrible bias against him which leads
them to discriminate against him with unfavorable news in the media.

I don’t believe everything journalists write; some of them can be economical with the
truth or lie through their teeth.
To be economical with the truth = not tell the whole truth 
You can also say (meaning the same)
 This story is stretching the truth 
 To lie through one’s teeth = to clearly lie without trying to hide it
I tend to check everything from some alternative sources
Some information is misleading, so we have to be careful 
If it’s convincing enough but I would like to discover some reliable evidence first.
It seems good journalism is vanishing these days.
I think we have been pushed into this society where the breaking news or the latest
gossip is the most important and the most valuable,
I think the most valuable information is not necessarily the latest or the most updated, 
and it just pushes us to follow fashions and trends all the time. 
I think you can pick out pieces of news or items of news that are relevant and useful for
you,