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Deepfakes are on the rise and on the cusp of changing our relationship with recorded audio or video content forever.

In this lesson, students learn how deepfakes are made and what technological advances enabled their development. After looking at some deepfakes examples and their implications, students will discuss how societies should deal with deepfakes in the future.

Fact-checking is an important skill to assess the news you get online. Fortunately, everybody can learn how to fact-check by asking critical questions about what you are reading or watching.

After diving into what a fact-checker does and how they check facts, students will become fact-checkers themselves by researching an online article.

Fake news isn’t a new phenomenon, but it has changed a lot over time. These lessons will take a dive into the history of news and fake news up until the rise of the internet.

In this lesson, students will learn about news and fake news in ancient history and, more importantly, before the invention of the printing press. They will also analyze three different case studies from different historical periods.

The next lesson will look at fake news after the invention of the printing press.

Fake news isn’t a new phenomenon, but it has changed a lot over time. These lessons will take a dive into the history of news and fake news up until the rise of the internet.

In this lesson, students will learn about news and fake news since the invention of the printing press. They will also analyze three different case studies from different historical periods.

In the next and final lesson, students will do a fake news simulation in which groups create different narratives based on the same facts.

Students are tasked with creating propaganda memes. They are given a news story and are told what side of the issue they are to represent. They then must make memes that could be effectively used to convince a general audience.