(0)
In the age of fake news and deliberate misinformation, understanding the difference between persuasive, credible data and manipulative, incredulous conjecture allows readers to pinpoint errors in logic, reliance on falsehoods and deliberately manipulative skewing of truth. Understanding how to tell an informative piece of text from an erroneous or manipulative one is an art that must be honed regularly. Needless to say, this takes a lot of work. This plan will teach users some of the tools they have available to help keep their analytical focus sharply trained, as well as how to recognize some of the obvious (and some less-than-obvious) red flags that happen to pop up more than they ought to in today's journalistic landscape.