Steel,Annie.“Henny-Penny.” Henny-Penny”-EnglishFairyTale,1918, www.worldoftales.com/European_folktales/English_folktale_108.html#gsc.tab=0. 

This article is vital to creating the research essay because it is the original folktale that I will be working on. The story is an important source to have because I will be able to use it to answer questions that I am researching. I will be using the original story’s lessons to show how it relates to misinformation online today. This folktale will also help me be able to compare the story and lessons of the story to a newer version of it that I found. This source also tells the origins of the folktale. It is an English folktale from the eighteenth century. This is important because a story being so old changes over time. In the newer version that most people are more knowledgeable of, Chicken Little, the story changes and so do the lessons. The original story does a great portrayal of how dangerous believing everything is, which is a great comparison to the research I will be doing.   

Dindal, Mark, director. Chicken Little. Walt Disney Feature Animation’s, 2005. 

The movie Chicken Little, by Disney, is a movie that shows how the message of a story can change over time. Stories change because of different viewpoints, cultures, or to send a different message to an audience. As a movie, the purpose of this version is to entertain people. Being a children’s movie in modern times, the story takes a less violent approach and a happier ending. That is not the only change though. The story’s message goes from “do not trust everything you hear” to” trust your friends and work together.” These are clearly vastly different messages from the same story at its core. Changes like this are expected not only because of the time difference, but the movie was an American film. This emphasizes the fact that different cultures have different values and messages to send. The importance of this source is to show the change of the folktale over the years.  

Selvi, I., Baydilli, N. An analysis of misleading YouTube videos on urological conditions: “What to do about the danger of spreading misinformation of the YouTube videos? World J URL 40, 885–886 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00345-021-03623-7 

This article shows how misinformation can be harmful to people who go to the internet to find information. This article is a great comparison to how Henny Penny misleads his friends into danger because when people go to YouTube for information, videos can be made to look believable but are not accurate. This relates to the argument, believing everything you hear can be dangerous. There are many things posted online like tutorials and information by people who are not qualified or knowledgeable enough to teach the subject. This can lead to people breaking items they are trying to fix, panicking about an illness that they may not have, or even hurting themselves or others. The source is a viable source because it is a peer-reviewed article that is on the Sojourner Truth Library page. Having a document that I can connect to my paper’s thesis is important in providing evidence for it. 

Siebert, Jana, and Johannes Siebert. “Enhancing Misinformation Correction: New Variants and a Combination of Awareness Training and Counter-Speech to Mitigate Belief Perseverance Bias.” 16 Feb. 2024, Accessed 27 Feb. 2024. https://libdatabase.newpaltz.edu/login?             
urlhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=175498929&sit e=ehost-live 

This article will be my counter argument for the paper. It shows that misinformation can be avoided and that it is possible to stay away from it. It also shows how researchers put in work to limit misinformation. However, there is far too much false information on the internet, and it is impossible to get rid of a significant amount of it. Even though there are ways to avoid getting bad information, there are many instances that show many people are still fooled and taken advantage of. For example, older people who are not as aware of the dangers of the internet can end up easily clicking on a link that steals their information or hacks them. Even younger people who use shady websites or want to research something quick can get hacked or not realize the source they are using is bad. While there are ways to not be fooled, most people use the internet for quick easy access to information. Most people are clicking the first link that pops up when looking for something instead of searching multiple websites to find repeating information to increase the chances of it being accurate. 

Albrecht, Carina, et al. The Propagation of Misinformation in Social Media: A Cross-Platform Analysis / Ed. by Richard Rogers. Edited by Richard Rogers, Amsterdam University Press, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048554249. 

This book is the most important piece of information I will use because it shows a big problem of misinformation going on in the world today. People will make claims and slander people without any facts or evidence to support their viewpoints and their agenda’s. When people make things up like this in order to win an argument, two things can happen. Either whoever they are arguing with will believe them and start spreading false information or it will continue to create division in people with different opinions, making it harder to find common ground when having a disagreement with someone. This source will further show the reason misinformation is a problem facing society today. This source will also further support my thesis that believing everything you hear is dangerous. This book is a credible source because I found it in the library. Also, being a book, it went through editors and publishers, making it a reliable source.