The Source Check
Evaluating media credibility
What started with the information diet just got more complicated. Now you need to curate an information diet that informs without inflaming — and the situation is shifting faster than your first approach can handle.
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The Information Diet
→Your feed is poison. Every scroll makes you angrier. Navigate the media landscape when election season turns information into ammunition.
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Election Season
→Your media diet is toxic, dinner table politics are ruining relationships, and everyone wants you to pick a side. Navigate the information war, the family debates, and the civic courage to stay engaged without losing yourself.
What you'll learn from The Source Check
This scenario focuses on Evaluating media credibility — a critical skill inside the broader communication domain. You'll face a decision where the instinctive response is often the wrong one. After you make your choice, you'll see exactly what happened in the other person's head and why it mattered. The scenario is part of The Information Diet, a full interactive story inside the Election Season quest.
Skills you'll build in Election Season
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Every scroll makes your chest tighter. The headlines scream, the comments rage, and your feed has become a firehose of outrage. You need to decide what to consume — before the information consumes you.
This is the moment you've been building toward. Surviving family dinners when politics turns the table into a battlefield — except now the stakes are real and there's no rehearsal. What you do next matters.
You've faced the hardest part. Now turn what you've learned into something sustainable — a way to curate an information diet that informs without inflaming not just today, but every time this situation returns.
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