Misinformation Literacy

One interesting study was done years ago about the "Pacific Tree Octopus" and this hoax was used to see if children could tell the difference between fake and real information.These sources explain the hoax:

• https://www.livescience.com/32992-kids-believe-literally-anything-they-read-online.html
• Abstract -https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/ILS-04-2018-0031/full/html
• Website of fake information -https://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/
• Library of Congress Entry -https://www.loc.gov/item/lcwaN0010826

For your first answer here, please explain how you search for and verify the truth of or at least credibility of information.For your second answer, list a few methods you could use to mislead people using statistical information.