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Fake News • Resources for Evaluating Information: Fake News vs Satire

Exploring the reliability of information sources including fake news and photos, and social media..

Defining Satire

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

noun / noun sat·ire /ˈsa-ˌtī(-ə)r

"1. a literary work holding up human vices & follies to ridicule or scorn; 2. trenchant wit, irony, or sarcasm used to expose & discredit vice or folly."

 

English Oxford Living Dictionary

"noun (1) [mass noun] The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues: ‘the crude satire seems to be directed at the fashionable protest singers of the time’"

Wall Street Journal: When Does Political Satire Go Too Far? (2016)


 

 

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