Assess students' ability to evaluate credibility, detect bias, identify rhetorical strategies, and spot misinformation in digital news and social media posts. Test skills in source verification, evidence appraisal, recognizing logical fallacies and persuasive techniques, cross-checking claims and contextualizing multimedia, and proposing corrective strategies. Include analysis of headlines, user-generated posts, embedded links, and platform amplification, requiring justified judgments and description of verification methods.