Run a workshop

A short session to project, then a sheet for the facilitator. Both sites shown are fictional: Recto never singles out a real site in front of a group.

The session to project

Move on with the buttons, or the keyboard arrows once the slideshow is selected. Full screen enlarges the text.

Run a workshop

Who publishes this site?

Before believing a piece of news, look at who publishes it. Here are two fictional sites: over to you to examine them.

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The facilitator’s sheet

Goal

That everyone can find who publishes a news website, and tells a verifiable fact from a judgement.

Length, audience, equipment

45 minutes, for a group from secondary school age. A screen or projector, this page, and a phone or computer for every two people at the end.

Running order

5 minutes: “How do you know who wrote what you read?” Write the answers down.
20 minutes: the projected session. Let people search before revealing each line of the card.
15 minutes, in pairs: each person picks a news website they read, looks for its legal notice on the site, then checks whether it has a card on Recto.
5 minutes: the three habits, and the first answers read again together.

Key messages

Recto shows facts from public registers and the site’s pages, never an opinion about an outlet.
Missing information is not a judgement on the site: it only says what was not found.
When a line does not match, people check: no machine passes judgement.

To avoid

Calling a real site “fake” in front of the group. Talk about facts: what the site declares, what the registers say.