Q In Eat. Read. Think: Thinking (Links to an external site.) We learn that Intellectual Free Lunch means having "vociferous opinions on any subject, without having to know, or even think, about it"--which is exactly the stuff that Fake News is made of and why it is so dangerous. Find a current article from anywhere that you think is "Fake News." (Post a link to it here.) Then write a paragraph answering the following questions: • What persuasive strategies or fallacies do you think were used to make the news seem to be true? • What kind of details do you think were left out? • Who is the audience for this news story? • Why would this audience be more likely to believe this story?
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