Editing Fact-checking (section)

=== Informal fact-checking ===
Individual readers perform some types of fact-checking, such as comparing claims in one news story against claims in another.

Rabbi Moshe Benovitz, has observed that: "modern students use their wireless worlds to augment skepticism and to reject dogma." He says this has positive implications for values development:

{{blockquote|1=Fact-checking can become a learned skill, and technology can be harnessed in a way that makes it second nature... By finding opportunities to integrate technology into learning, students will automatically sense the beautiful blending of… their cyber… [and non-virtual worlds]. Instead of two spheres coexisting uneasily and warily orbiting one another, there is a valuable experience of synthesis....<ref name=Benovitz12>Moshe Benovitz et al., 2012, "Education: The Social Media Revolution: What Does It Mean for Our Children?" ''Jewish Action'' (online), 24 August 2012, New York: Orthodox Union, see [https://www.ou.org/jewish_action/08/2012/the-social-media-revolution-what-does-it-mean-for-our-children/] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905235616/https://www.ou.org/jewish_action/08/2012/the-social-media-revolution-what-does-it-mean-for-our-children/ |date=5 September 2015 }}, accessed 28 July 2015.</ref>|sign=|source=}}

According to [[Queen's University Belfast]] researcher Jennifer Rose, because fake news is created with the intention of misleading readers, online news consumers who attempt to fact-check the articles they read may incorrectly conclude that a fake news article is legitimate. Rose states, "A diligent online news consumer is likely at a pervasive risk of inferring truth from [[false premises]]" and suggests that fact-checking alone is not enough to reduce fake news consumption. Despite this, Rose asserts that fact-checking "ought to remain on educational agendas to help combat fake news".<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Rose |first1=Jennifer |title=To Believe or Not to Believe: an Epistemic Exploration of Fake News, Truth, and the Limits of Knowing |journal=Postdigital Science and Education |date=January 2020 |volume=2 |issue=1 |pages=202–216 |doi=10.1007/s42438-019-00068-5 |doi-access=free |publisher=[[Springer Science+Business Media|Springer]]}}</ref>