Social Studies HS Guide

Five Factors for News Literacy - RumorGuard

Five Factors

Questions

Students should be able to…

Prompts

Is the information authentic?

To determine whether something they see online is genuine or has been doctored or fabricated through: • Knowing the definition of mis, dis, and mal information. • Practicing Lateral Reading • Conducting Reverse Image Searches To become familiar with journalism standards and to recognize that standards based news organizations have guidelines to ensure accuracy, fairness, transparency, and accountability. To identify false claims as • sheer assertions • digital fakes • out-of-context elements To evaluate the strength of evidence of a claim, such as: • Practicing Lateral Reading • Conducting Reverse Image Searches • Searching the web To recognize source bias.

This information has been/has not been manipulated and/or fabricated because…

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Authenticity

Has it been posted or confirmed by a credible source?

This source follows these standards of quality of journalism…

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Source

This source is/is not biased because…

Is there evidence that proves the claim?

The following evidence proves/disproves this claim….

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Evidence

• Is the context accurate? To verify the original context of digital content through: • Practicing Lateral Reading • Conducting Reverse Image Searches

The original context of the information is verifiable/not verifiable because…

Context

News Literacy Project. (n.d.). RumorGuard . News Literacy Project. Retrieved April 28, 2025, from https://rumorguard.org © 2025 Jodi Ide, Teacher Specialist, Canyons School District. All rights reserved. Sharing or reproduction permitted with aut hor’s permission.