Ten questions on the systems you live in. Name: Score: _____ / 10
1. On a free social media app, what is actually being sold?
A) Nothing, it is genuinely free
B) Your attention and your data
C) The app's own merchandise
D) Subscriptions only
2. The main design goal behind infinite scroll, autoplay and streaks is to:
A) Improve your wellbeing
B) Keep you on the app longer, because time on app is the money
C) Save battery
D) Meet a legal requirement
3. A recommendation algorithm tends to:
A) Show you a balanced range of views
B) Narrow what you see and harden what you think by serving more of what holds you
C) Pick content at random
D) Only show things your friends posted
4. Someone offers you a cut to let money pass through your bank account. This is:
A) A smart side hustle
B) Money muling, which is money laundering and is prosecuted
C) Legal under 18
D) Fine for small amounts
5. An account promises to turn £100 into £1,000 and shows a celebrity endorsing it. Most likely:
A) A genuine opportunity
B) Investment fraud, possibly using a deepfaked celebrity
C) A bank promotion
D) A giveaway
6. The reflex that protects you from most money scams is:
A) Only trusting accounts with lots of followers
B) If money is offered for almost nothing or a return sounds too good, the hidden risk is being carried by you
C) Asking the account to prove it
D) Trusting anything sent by a friend's account
7. Why should you think of a public account as a public document?
A) You shouldn't, private mode makes it invisible
B) Because college tutors and employers look, and screenshots make even deleted posts potentially permanent
C) Only celebrities need to worry
D) Because the law requires it
8. A voice note from a "friend" urgently asks you to send money. Before acting you should:
A) Send it, the voice proves it is them
B) Verify through a second channel, like ringing the real person
C) Reply asking for a selfie
D) Ignore all voice notes forever
9. The classic tell of a scam or manipulation is:
A) Poor spelling only
B) Urgency combined with a request for money, data or action
C) A friendly tone
D) Being sent in the evening
10. Sharing a deepfake or forwarding an intimate image is:
A) Harmless if you did not make it
B) Just a joke
C) Conduct with real legal weight that also becomes part of your own record
D) Only a problem for the person who made it
Answer Key (Teacher Copy)
1. B. The product framing is the spine of the lesson. If pupils leave with only this, they leave better equipped. 2. B. Design as business, not accident. 3. B. The filter bubble mechanism, which links directly to Prevent and hate speech. 4. B. Muling, deliberately echoed from the county lines pack because it is the same trap. Reinforce the banking consequences: closed accounts and being barred wreck a young adult's finances at the worst moment. 5. B. Investment fraud with deepfaked endorsement, now common. 6. B. The reflex worth drilling; it generalises across muling, crypto and job scams. 7. B. Footprint as document, framed around authorship rather than fear. 8. B. and 9. B. Second-channel verification and the urgency tell, the two AI-era survival skills. 10. C. Conduct with legal weight, closing the loop that at KS4 they are creators with responsibility, not just potential victims.