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The Verification Desk
Created by Argraide
Updated October 27th, 2026
At a glance
- Staff pick
- Picked by the Argraide team
- Play mode
- 📱 Solo
- Format
- 🖼️ 2D
- Length
- ⏱ About 20 minutes
- Subject
- ELA
- Grade
- 8
- Curriculum
- Ontario
- Curriculum code
- A2.3
About this activity
Students staff a newsroom verification desk on a late night. For each viral post they open evidence folders, pin only the checks that settle the claim, and stamp it Confirmed, Missing context, False or Unproven before it airs. Wrong stamps air and come back as corrections.
What students learn
- Assess the credibility of an online source by checking who is really behind the account (A2.3)
- Check a claim against other sources and the original source (lateral reading)
- Verify when and where an image first appeared, and whether cited data says what a post claims
- Tell misinformation (false, missing context, unproven) from reliable reporting, whatever the post looks like
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