Assess students' ability to evaluate credibility, detect bias, and analyze persuasive strategies in online news and social media texts using linguistic and rhetorical tools. Tasks include analyzing headlines, framing, source quality, lexical choices, modality, rhetorical appeals (ethos, pathos, logos), argument structure, common fallacies, visual-text interplay, and platform affordances; require justified credibility judgments, identification of bias and persuasion tactics, and recommended mitigation or revision strategies.