News Literacy Project

The News Literacy Project is a national education nonprofit offering nonpartisan, independent programs that teach students how to know what to believe in the digital age. Learn more at https://newslit.org/

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Misinformation
A Wild Plan to Crowdsource the Fight Against Misinformation
WIRED - Wired
Not the dead human kind, but rather the fake “facts” that have been debunked and disproven but refuse to die online. You know the kind. No need to …
News Literacy Project
Meet Diego, a Checkology student
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Gaza
Katrina Pierson tweeted about Gaza. The video she posted was filmed 2,000 miles away.
The Washington Post - By Meg Kelly, Elyse Samuels
“650 Rockets being fired into Israel from Gaza in an attempt to overwhelm Israels’ Iron Dome: 173 intercepts, 4 people killed and 28 wounded. What is @IllhanMN response to this violence? Will she condemn
Unraveling a ‘disinformation supply chain’ | Sift reader survey | Viral rumor rundown
mailchi.mp
Three minutes. Five questions. Eternal gratitude. Take The Sift reader survey. YES: Two Democratic senators, Kamala Harris of California and Cory Booker …
Literature
An Iranian Disinformation Operation Impersonated Media Outlets To Push Anti-Saudi Info
buzzfeednews.com - Craig Silverman
A case study in how “social media is being treated as a disinformation laboratory." An ambitious online disinformation campaign that impersonated …
News Literacy Project
Is That Real? A Crash Course in Verifying Online Content
webjunction.org
Dive into the tools and skills that you and your patrons need to verify the authenticity of user-generated content, and learn how to create engaging …
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Misinformation
Misinformation transcends platforms, languages and countries. How can fact-checkers stop it?
poynter.org - Daniel Funke
Since January, Poynter has been keeping track of how some of the top fact checks from around the world perform on Facebook compared to the hoaxes …
Media Industry
U.S. journalism really has become more subjective and personal — at least some of it
Nieman Lab - Laura Hazard Owen
A deep linguistic analysis finds that newspapers today are a lot like newspapers 30 years ago. But TV news — especially cable news — has ramped up the emotion, the conversationality, and the arguing. easy
News Literacy Project
We can’t rely on others to tell us what to trust
medium.com - The News Literacy Project
In the 11 years since I founded the News Literacy Project, I have learned time and again that it takes a lasting, comprehensive approach to overcome …
Fact Checking
Disguising Hate: How Radical Evangelicals Spread Anti-Islamic Vitriol on Facebook
snopes.com - Alex Kasprak
Great journalistic investigations often beget more investigations, often through fresh leads and perspectives from readers. That’s essentially what …
YouTube
Your Fav "Viral" Accounts Might Be Buying Fake Followers
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First Amendment
New report: College students support the First Amendment, but some favor diversity and inclusion over protecting the extremes
knightfoundation.org
MIAMI—May 13, 2019—As college students across the United States continue to test the limits and protections of the First Amendment, a new report by …
Social Media
Amplify: Equipping teens with digital literacy in the social media age is more important than ever
The Globe and Mail - Carly Weeks
This is the weekly Amplify newsletter. If you’re reading this on the web or someone forwarded this e-mail newsletter to you, you can sign up for Amplify and all Globe newsletters here. My Instagram feed
Should newspapers apologize? | Instagram's anti-vax battle | 'Click farms' explained
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NO: The video in this tweet does not show rockets being fired into Israel from the Gaza Strip. YES: It is footage from a 2014 military exercise at the …
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Erdogan’s expanding dictatorship is steering Turkey toward a dead end
The Washington Post - By Editorial Board
AFTER APPEARING on a television talk show May 10, Yavuz Selim Demirag, a columnist for a Turkish newspaper who has been critical of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government, was approached outside home
Opinion
Viral misinformation: Rise of 'anti-vaxxer' movement requires news literacy inoculation
USA TODAY - Alan C. Miller
Viral misinformation is spreading into sickness as the measles outbreak continues to grow, but we can inoculate against 'Anti-vaxxer' information. When I first began using the “virus” analogy to describe
News Literacy
Reduced media literacy training rate for small, rural, and tribal staff
americanlibrariesmagazine.org
Employees of libraries that serve small, rural, or tribal communities are invited to participate in a one-day media literacy training at the 2019 ALA …
Advocacy
How a Newspaper War in New Orleans Ended: With a Baked Alaska and Layoffs
The New York Times - By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON
NEW ORLEANS — The announcement came via the baked alaska. On May 2, senior staff members at The Advocate newspaper gathered in a room at Antoine’s, one of the white-linen dining palaces in the French of
News Literacy Project
Before you say Happy Mother’s Day, should you fact-check your mom?
medium.com - The News Literacy Project
If you haven’t spent any time around journalists, you may not have heard this cheeky quote: “If your mother says she loves you, check it out.” This …
Singapore
Singapore fake news law polices chats and online platforms
BBC News - Tessa Wong
Singapore has passed a controversial anti-fake news law that gives authorities sweeping powers to police online platforms and even private chat groups. The government can now order platforms to remove
What Happened After My 13-Year-Old Son Joined the Alt-Right
washingtonian.com - Written by Anonymous
When my son Sam,* who was then 14, asked me to take him to the Mother of All Rallies on the Mall in September 2017, I said no. The pro-Trump event …
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Media Industry
Fact-checking can’t do much when people’s “dueling facts” are driven by values instead of knowledge
Nieman Lab - David Barker and Morgan Marietta
“Perhaps the most disappointing finding from our studies — at least from our point of view — is that there are no known fixes to this problem.” The Mueller report was supposed to settle, once and for the
News Literacy Project
NLP journalist volunteer Paul Saltzman dissects news judgment — News Literacy Project
newslit.org
Paul Saltzman, the investigative news editor at the Chicago Sun-Times, has a simple answer when asked whether the public has a solid understanding of …
Venezuela
Venezuela is hurting and Latam fact-checkers are working together to sort fact from fiction
poynter.org - Cristina Tardáguila
On April 30, Latin American fact-checkers woke up under the effects of a video posted on social media by Juan Guaidó. The Venezuelan opposition …
Misinformation
Instagram is reducing the reach of posts debunked by fact-checkers
poynter.org - Daniel Funke
In an expansion of Facebook’s partnership with fact-checking sites around the world, Instagram has started reducing the reach of false posts. When one …
Dangerous or censored? | Poynter retracts “UnNews” list | Populism’s conspiracy correlation
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NO:Roosevelt Middle School in Oakland, California, did not display this message on its sign. The message was added to the photo using an online fake …
Checkology - Lessons in Being Discerning Media Consumers
freetech4teachers.com
Checkology is a website designed to help students learn to be discerning consumers of online, print, and television media. Checkology has a free …

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A Wild Plan to Crowdsource the Fight Against Misinformation

Meet Diego, a Checkology student

Katrina Pierson tweeted about Gaza. The video she posted was filmed 2,000 miles away.

Unraveling a ‘disinformation supply chain’ | Sift reader survey | Viral rumor rundown

An Iranian Disinformation Operation Impersonated Media Outlets To Push Anti-Saudi Info

Is That Real? A Crash Course in Verifying Online Content

Misinformation transcends platforms, languages and countries. How can fact-checkers stop it?

U.S. journalism really has become more subjective and personal — at least some of it

We can’t rely on others to tell us what to trust

Disguising Hate: How Radical Evangelicals Spread Anti-Islamic Vitriol on Facebook

Your Fav "Viral" Accounts Might Be Buying Fake Followers

New report: College students support the First Amendment, but some favor diversity and inclusion over protecting the extremes

Amplify: Equipping teens with digital literacy in the social media age is more important than ever

Should newspapers apologize? | Instagram's anti-vax battle | 'Click farms' explained

Erdogan’s expanding dictatorship is steering Turkey toward a dead end

Viral misinformation: Rise of 'anti-vaxxer' movement requires news literacy inoculation

Reduced media literacy training rate for small, rural, and tribal staff

How a Newspaper War in New Orleans Ended: With a Baked Alaska and Layoffs

Before you say Happy Mother’s Day, should you fact-check your mom?

Singapore fake news law polices chats and online platforms

What Happened After My 13-Year-Old Son Joined the Alt-Right

Fact-checking can’t do much when people’s “dueling facts” are driven by values instead of knowledge

NLP journalist volunteer Paul Saltzman dissects news judgment — News Literacy Project

Venezuela is hurting and Latam fact-checkers are working together to sort fact from fiction

Instagram is reducing the reach of posts debunked by fact-checkers

Dangerous or censored? | Poynter retracts “UnNews” list | Populism’s conspiracy correlation

Checkology - Lessons in Being Discerning Media Consumers