Yeah, which makes me wonder: is the test too easy, or is the state of civic engagement and media literacy so eroded that a large number of people can’t identify obviously fake headlines? I can believe the latter after Faux’s 40 year campaign to create a fact-free conservative echo chamber.
True, but “Fake News”, misinformation, and disinformation have been openly discussed issues for at least two election cycles now, if not more. Being told it’s a test to identify fake news, given to people told they are swimming in a sea of fake news, is in itself an interesting test of whether test takers can identify it when it is served to them on a platter.
Trying to think of a clever analogy about testing whether fish can identify water…
