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A review by shighley
True or False: A CIA Analyst's Guide to Spotting Fake News by Cindy L. Otis
3.0
I'm still not exactly sure who the best audience for this would be. I did learn some things, and I have taught media classes to middle schoolers myself. The book is well-organized and would lend itself to supporting someone teaching about media literacy. I did find the reverse typography a bit off-putting at times, and some of the examples were blurry.
Interestingly enough, I had already experienced fake news simply by searching twitter with "Nashville suspect," as I read this right after the Christmas, 2020 bombing. I was amazed by the number of false tweets that resulted, and many showed the characteristics of bots, trolls, and manufactured tweets that I later read about. I can imagine that the author would have had a field day with incorporating stories from the COVID pandemic; I have also seen so many examples of media bias during the stimulus package debate. Ironically, I feel like she could have also included "errors" of omission in media reporting; I felt there were some things she left out.
I first heard about this book by attending a webinar with the author and Peter Adams of the News Literacy Project.
Interestingly enough, I had already experienced fake news simply by searching twitter with "Nashville suspect," as I read this right after the Christmas, 2020 bombing. I was amazed by the number of false tweets that resulted, and many showed the characteristics of bots, trolls, and manufactured tweets that I later read about. I can imagine that the author would have had a field day with incorporating stories from the COVID pandemic; I have also seen so many examples of media bias during the stimulus package debate. Ironically, I feel like she could have also included "errors" of omission in media reporting; I felt there were some things she left out.
I first heard about this book by attending a webinar with the author and Peter Adams of the News Literacy Project.