Grandfather Clause

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Use this assessment to gauge students’ skills at verifying claims on social media. This task asks students whether a claim made on TikTok is accurate. The video claims that the term “grandfather clause” comes from a disenfranchisement scheme common in Southern states in the Jim Crow era. By consulting credible sources, students should determine that the claim is true.

Crash Course Video #10: Social Media

In the final video of the series, John Green explains how social media algorithms generate content and teaches strategies for navigating information on social media responsibly.