Truth and Dare: Kids vs. Fake News.

Fake news is another word for “disinformation”. It means information that looks and sounds like true, but which is false or not totally true. Sometimes, even if statements might be false, the events they are referring to might be real. Fake news is made to look like news: it is catchy so that it attracts the attention of more readers and gets more clicks or shares. The aims of this content are different: sometimes it is to mislead and manipulate the public, for ideological or economic gains (Baptista & Gradim, 2022). However, sometimes it can happen that fake news comes from lack of understanding and full knowledge of a situation