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Providing learners with knowledge about what disinformation can look like online helps them to put their developing critical and digital media literacy skills into action. | |
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They help children and young people to put their developing critical and digital media literacy skills into action. ‘SIFT‘ is an easier acronym to remember and will therefore be more suitable for younger learners, while ‘VERIFY‘ can support and complement more advanced learning content about disinformation. | |
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The Legit-o-Meter is a tool from PBS Learning Media which supports children and young people to identify whether a site or source of information can be trusted. It provides them with a barometer for identifying legitimate or false sources of information and encouraging critical engagement with online sources. This can be used with primary and secondary learners. You may wish to adapt content to suit the stage of your learners. | |
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Source Checker is an online game for children and young people which develops their skills in identifying reputable and reliable sources. It provides them with key information about the types of sources that news sites often use (e.g. eyewitness, video, opinion), and how to identify and critically engage with them. This would be best suited for upper primary and lower secondary learners. It could be completed as a task during learning related to disinformation. | |
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Full Fact is an impartial service. This is a helpful resource for teachers. Particular content could be explored with learners as case studies during learning, however teachers should prepare and select specific content first due to the wide array of disinformation that Full Fact debunks. | |
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Research
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The analysis of the TikTok content featured in this report was conducted between July 1 – 16, 2021. The report also highlights how users issued threats to public figures, based on COVID-19 conspiracies and misinformation, documenting a worrying intersection that may fuel further extremism, radicalisation or violence.
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This report aims to provide an in-depth analysis on the state of extremism and hate on TikTok. It is the culmination of three months of research on a sample of 1,030 videos posted on TikTok, equivalent to just over eight hours of content, that were used to promote hatred
This briefing is part of ISD’s Gaming and Extremism Series exploring the role online gaming plays in the strategy of far-right
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To better understand the impact that TikTok has, in 2023 ISD analysts gathered and analysed data on trends in hate speech and extremist content on TikTok, and how effectively they were being moderated by the platform. Data for the white supremacy content study was collected during one week in mid-August 2023 and indicates that such content was alive and well on the platform: 70 of the 108 video samples studied were uploaded to TikTok within the most recent three months at the time of collection. Of those 108 videos, the median number of views at the time of analysis was 6,097, a significant increase from ISD’s 2021 report where the median across 1,030 videos was 503 views. | |
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Extreme misogyny is not new, but online spaces are facilitating a resurgence and re-entrenching of attitudes and behaviours that seek to justify and incite violence against women and girls. The internet makes it possible for these misogynistic views to spread rapidly on an unprecedented scale, uncontained by cultural or geographical borders. This phenomenon is of growing concern in Scotland. To learn more about it, Zero Tolerance commissioned participatory research to explore young Scottish men’s and women’s experiences and views of so-called ‘incel culture’. Civic Digits ran a participatory theatre project called Many Good Men from August 2023 to March 2024. Clare Duffy, the Director of Civic Digits, and two senior youth workers, Gael Cochrane and Zaki El-Salahi, led a group of young White women and a group of young Black men to co-create two new plays to be performed by professional actors at Hearts Football Club in February 2024. The audience was other young people from schools and youth groups. | |
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Plugged in but Disconnected looks at young people and the attitudes they hold. We find some shocking evidence of hateful attitudes, particularly amongst young men. The report covers hateful attitudes with a particular focus on misogyny, what happens if hateful ideologies lead to violence and the struggles of tackling hate in the classroom. We offer some practical education and policy solutions. | |
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