Should social media sites filter out fake news

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Academic English Skills Coursework 1 Assessment: Source Report
Name: Class: Date:
Essay title or question:
Title: Should social media sites filter out fake news
Plan for overall structure of essay:
Plan for overall structure
Introduction – context and position:
Thesis statement:
Topic 1.
Topic 2.
Topic 3.
Topic 4.
Topic 5.
Conclusion
Use the following referencing format for your sources:
Books / chapters of books:
Surname, I. and Surname, I. (Year) Title of the book Place of Publication: Publisher
Surname, I. (Year) ‘Chapter of the book’ In: I. Surname & I. Surname (Eds) Title of the book Place of Publication:
Publisher pp.1 - 18
Journal articles (print/ online)
Surname, I. (Year) ‘The Title of the Article’ The Name of the Journal 1 (1), pp. 1- 18
Reports / articles online
Surname, I. (Year) ‘The Title of the Article or Report’ [Online] The Name of the Organisation or website. Available at: url [Last Accessed DD.MM.YY]
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Part 1: List of relevant sources
List 5 sources which will be useful in answering your essay question, and are suitable for academic use.
Make sure you use the referencing format provided on page 1. Outline how you found your sources, including where you found the source and how you found it. For three of
your sources, note why it is relevant to your essay.
Reference Type of source: I found this source by... This source is relevant to my
essay because...
1 Fardiah, D., Rinawati, R., Darmawan, F., Abdul, R. and Lucky, K., 2020.
Media literacy for dissemination anticipated fake news on social media.
Mediator: Jurnal Komunikasi, 13(2), pp.278-289.
Academic journal
article
Book
Online report /
article
Other (state which)
Searching academic
journals about fake news It helps gain a generalized idea
about the current use of social
media for spreading fake news
2 Alkawaz, M.H., Khan, S.A. and Abdullah, M.I., 2021, April. Plight of Social
Media Users: The Problem of Fake News on Social Media. In 2021 IEEE
11th IEEE Symposium on Computer Applications & Industrial Electronics
(ISCAIE) (pp. 289-293). IEEE.
Academic journal
article
Book
Online report /
article
Other (state which)
Journal search for social
media problems Understanding the details
regarding the problems brought
by fake news in social media
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Nyow, N.X. and Chua, H.N., 2019, November. Detecting fake news with
tweets’ properties. In 2019 IEEE Conference on Application, Information
and Network Security (AINS) (pp. 24-29). IEEE.
Academic journal
article
Book
Online report /
article
Other (state which)
Journal search about ways
to identify fake news
Learning about how popular
social media sites are
countering and identifying this
problem
4 How should social media platforms combat misinformation and hate
speech, 2022 [online]
available through
<https://www.brookings.edu/blog/techtank/2019/04/09/how-
should-social
media-platforms-combat-misinformation-and-hate-speech/>
Academic journal
article
Book
Online report /
article
Other (state which)
Online search about hate
speech
Getting an idea about various
provisions used by social media
to address this problem
5 Social media companies could be sanctioned for fake news, says MEP, Academic journal
article
Online search about
consequences of fake
To drive home the fact that the
problem needs filtering or there
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2022 [online] available
through <https://www.newstalk.com/news/social-media-companies-
could-be-sanctioned-for
fake-news-says-mep-1323160>
Book
Online report /
article
Other (state which)
news will be dire adverse effects
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