Puerto Rico: real or Fake News?
1. What hurricane recently hit Puerto Rico (PR)?
2. What Category storm was this hurricane?
3. What is FEMA?
4. What is the mission of FEMA?
5. What is the Jones Act? What has been done about the law? Will this help or hurt recovery efforts?
6. Who is the mayor of San Juan, PR?
7. What were some of the comments made by the mayor about aid being given to PR?
8. What items were behind the mayor when she gave this news conference?
9. What message did the mayor
have on her shirt at one of her news conferences? If PR is basically destroyed,
where did the shirt come from? You can use the internet to speculate on
this question.
10. As of Sunday, October 1st, how many FEMA meetings has this mayor made?
11. Who is the terrorist the mayor has honored? Who had this terrorist killed?
12. What did a neighboring cite mayor say about San Juan’s mayor?
13. How many Navy and Coast Guard ships have been sent to PR?
14. What is the USNS Comfort? Was it really necessary to send this ship to PR?
15. How many helicopters were sent to PR?
16. How much money has been allocated so far for relief efforts in both PR and the Virgin Islands?
17. When the National Guard was activated in PR how many showed/didn’t show percentage wise?
18. Did union truck drivers refuse to report to work to transport relief supplies? Real or Fake news? Explain.
19. Find a transcript that covers
what a police officer said about the mayor and government officials in
this crisis. Real or fake news? Why?
20. Who is heading the FEMA
operations in PR? What have they said about the recovery efforts as it
applies to roads, power grid, airports and hospitals?
21. As of today, how many hospitals are running at full operations in PR?
22. As of today, who is the highest Trump administration official to have visited PR after the hurricane?
23. When is President Trump scheduled to visit PR?
24. President Trump was accused
of not knowing the PR’s are Americans. Is this real or fake news? Where
did this accusation originate from? Cough cough… http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-trump-puerto-rico_us_59c9a7f4e4b01cc57ff4e19e
cough cough
25. A former Clinton official,
Paul Krugman, made the claim on twitter that a dangerous disease had hit
PR. What disease was running rampant in PR according to Krugman?
26. Was this disease claim real
or fake news? Find the tweet made by this Nobel Prize winning economist.
How many likes and retweets did this message get? Was a retraction
made? How many likes and retweets did this retraction,
if made, get?
27. Overall, do you think the government is doing enough to help out the citizens of PR? Explain.
