Fact vs Fake news? Women’s health quiz

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Last Friday, March 6, The Femedic participated in Women of the World festival 2020 with a stall in the marketplace. Our aim was to raise awareness of how prevalent and harmful missing information and misinformation is when it comes to digital health content.

As well as handing out “fake news”-papers, we created this quiz by fact-checking real reporting online.

You can take the quiz below:

Last Friday, March 6, The Femedic participated in Women of the World festival 2020 with a stall in the marketplace. Our aim was to raise awareness of how prevalent and harmful missing information and misinformation is when it comes to digital health content.

As well as handing out “fake news”-papers, we created this quiz by fact-checking real reporting online.

You can take the quiz below:

Monica Karpinski

Founder & Editor, The Femedic

Monica is the Founder and Editor of The Femedic. She is an award-winning content strategist and healthcare journalist, who created The Femedic to meet a simple need: accurate, genuinely useful health content that answered people’s questions properly. Monica has been named one of The Drum’s 50 under 30 for influential women in digital 2018 and was shortlisted for Female Entrepreneur of the Year in the 2018 British Business awards. She speaks and writes widely on healthcare and health inequalities.

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