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title: Crap Detection
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# Crap Detection

## Reading Response

News literacy is defined as the ability to use critical thinking skills to judge the reliability and credibility of news reports, whether they come via print, television or the Internet. (Valenza 2016)

Pure fake news sites use fabricated stories to lure traffic, encourage clicks (click bait), influence or profit using intentionally deceptive, but highly intriguing, often sensational information. 
Hoax sites also share false information with the intention to trick readers/viewers 
Satirical sites present news with a comical, often exaggerated spin 
Born digital images and edited images alter and often misrepresent visual reality (Valenza 2016

Google Search
Consult refine your Google search and make use of Google’s Advanced Search page.
What would you query to see how many pages on the English Wikipedia site mention “Northeastern University”? 
https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS865US865&sxsrf=ACYBGNTrAQ1Kp_Ta1YzoYdEXDgXUjGGzTw%3A1568933407941&ei=HwaEXeWGOeyzggfd1r0o&q=site%3Awikipedia.org+%22northeastern+university%22&oq=site%3Awikipedia.org+%22northeastern+university%22&gs_l=psy-ab.3...273.1504..1706...2.2..0.71.199.3......0....1..gws-wiz.......0i71j35i302i39.TQK2mbZ1aag&ved=0ahUKEwilktOz_N3kAhXsmeAKHV1rDwUQ4dUDCAs&uact=5

How many results did you get? 10,900 results
What would you query to see Web pages about the skate fish but no pages about an “ice rink”?
https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS865US865&sxsrf=ACYBGNT9G5pfNsk71qk30Nmyd0QUDgpdAA%3A1568933452640&ei=TAaEXavPJo7K_QbUkaCwCw&q=skate+fish+-%22ice+rink%22&oq=skate+fish+-%22ice+rink%22&gs_l=psy-ab.3...3354.4733..4951...0.2..0.52.101.2......0....1..gws-wiz.......0i71.cACfzPedEyE&ved=0ahUKEwirpfvI_N3kAhUOZd8KHdQICLYQ4dUDCAs&uact=5
What would you query to see Web pages about the Northeastern Huskies from the first day of 2001 through the last day of 2002?
https://www.google.com/search?q=northeastern+huskies&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS865US865&sxsrf=ACYBGNTbD-j23e3A6yWAkDaDL6zfW15lYw%3A1568933549188&source=lnt&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A1%2F1%2F2001%2Ccd_max%3A12%2F31%2F2002&tbm=
Note, the date range operator (‘..’) finds instances of numbers on the page (including dates) but that doesn’t mean the page is from that date.
Find me the top image of a pair of penguins with a “free to use, share or modify, even commercially” license, sometimes referred to as “labeled for reuse with modification.”

![](https://i.imgur.com/UTuGT0C.png)

Web credibility
Find a Web page of questionable credibility and apply some of the criteria discussed by Valenza and Northern Michigan University.

https://politics.theonion.com/justin-trudeau-responds-to-blackface-criticism-with-new-1838258264

Authority: The contents of the page are created by a satire news source. The organization is not legitamite, and there are no qualifications for politics. The content uses strong words like "prissy" and "whiny", which show evidence of bias. 


Wikipedia evaluation

The claims of the Joseph Reagle Wikipedia article are somewhat verifiable. Claim a.) can be verified by the link, but claim b.) cannot be verified. I would change the word "bestselling", because there are no links that give evidence that the book *Good Faith Collaboration* was a best seller. 