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Study: Most Students Clueless About Fake News vs. Real News

Study: Most Students Clueless About Fake News vs. Real News

(AP)

By    |   Tuesday, 22 November 2016 11:11 AM EST

A Stanford University study has found some 82 percent of middle-school students were unable to distinguish between an ad labeled "sponsored content" and a real news story on the Web, The Wall Street reports.

According to the newspaper, the survey of some 7,804 students from middle-school through college also found:

  • Many students judged the credibility of "news-like tweets on how much detail they contained or whether a large photo was attached, rather than on the source.
  • Over two out of three middle-schoolers couldn’t see a valid reason to question a post written by a bank executive arguing that young people need more financial-planning help.
  • Nearly four in 10 high-school students believed, based on the headline, that a photo of deformed daisies on a photo-sharing site was "strong evidence" of toxins near a nuclear plant in Japan, even though there was no source or location listed.

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A Stanford University study has found some 82 percent of middle-school students were unable to distinguish between an ad labeled "sponsored content" and a real news story on the Web, The Wall Street reports.
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