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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Psychology
Fake News Can Lead to False Memories
psychologicalscience.org
Voters may form false memories after seeing fabricated news stories, especially if those stories align with their political beliefs, according to …
Technology
YouTube Disables 210 Channels That Spread Disinformation About Hong Kong Protests
The New York Times
Amazon Rainforest
Some of the most-shared images of the Amazon rainforest fires are old or are not of the Amazon
CNN - By Paul P. Murphy, CNN
(CNN) — Social media helped increase coverage of the wildfires, but it's also contributing to misinformation. There's no question that several parts of the Amazon rainforest are on fire, and humans are
Scripps
Scripps, News Literacy Project join forces to promote news literacy education - Scripps
scripps.com
Scripps, News Literacy Project join forces to promote news literacy education CINCINNATI – The E.W. Scripps Company (NASDAQ: SSP) and the News …
News Literacy Project
Trust in news sources: It’s complicated — News Literacy Project
newslit.org
A 2018 study by the Pew Research Center found that most Americans expect the information they get from a news organization to be accurate. So why …
Ebola
Disinformation and Disease: Social Media and the Ebola Epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
cfr.org - David P. Fidler
The proliferation of disinformation online amidst the DRC’s outbreak of the Ebola virus is a serious threat to global health. Efforts to curb bad …
Criminal Justice
Could Restorative Justice Fix the Internet?
The New York Times
As we all spend our days yelling at one another online, it’s easy to despair and wonder: Is there any way to fix our toxic internet? Micah Loewinger, a producer for WNYC’s “On the Media,” was pondering
Everyone Is an Agent in the New Information Warfare
scientificamerican.com - THE EDITORS
No one thinks, I am the kind of person who is susceptible to misinformation. It is those others (stupid anti-vaxxers! arrogant liberal elites!) who are …
Hong Kong
Facebook, Twitter accuse China of running disinformation campaign against Hong Kong protesters
CNBC - Annie Palmer
Twitter and Facebook have suspended numerous accounts that they say are tied to a Chinese disinformation campaign against pro-democracy protesters in …
When does reporting become a megaphone for disinformation?
firstdraftnews.org
As part of our work on building resilient societies in an age of information disorder, First Draft recently launched a series of ‘Standards …
Counting the Pinocchios: The effect of summary fact-checking data on perceived accuracy and favorability of politicians Alexander
sagepub.com - Alexander Agadjanian1, Nikita Bakhru2, Victoria Chi2, Devyn Greenberg2, Byrne Hollander2, Alexander Hurt2, Joseph Kind2, Ray Lu2, Annie Ma2, Brendan Nyhan2, Daniel Pham2, Michael Qian2, Mackinley Tan2, Clara Wang2, Alexander Wasdahl2, Alexandra Woodruff2 1Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA 2Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA Corresponding Author: Brendan Nyhan, Dartmouth College, HB 6108, Hanover, NH 03755, USA. Email: [email protected] edu
Can the media effectively hold politicians accountable for making false claims? Journalistic fact-checking assesses the accuracy of individual public …
John Cusack
What To Do If The Older People In Your Life Are Sharing False Or Extreme Content
buzzfeednews.com - Craig Silverman
“What do you do when your parents go from posting Minions to posting hard-right memes about cement milkshakes?” This story is part of Protect Your …
Jeffrey Epstein
The Twitter-fed disaster over Epstein's death demands a solution: Slow news
ctpost.com - Margaret Sullivan, The Washington Post
If, by some crazy chance, you wanted to be well-informed these past few days about the sudden death of Jeffrey Epstein, there was a way. The minute …
Deepfakes
This Video May Not Be Real
The New York Times
By Claire Wardle Video by Leah Varjacques and Taige Jensen In the video Op-Ed above, Claire Wardle responds to growing alarm around “deepfakes” — seemingly realistic videos generated by artificial intelligence.
Gamergate
How an Online Mob Created a Playbook for a Culture War
The New York Times
The powerful lesson of a 5-year-old harassment campaign: How to wage a post-truth information war.
News Literacy Project
Online, falsehoods spread faster than facts — News Literacy Project
newslit.org
That’s according to researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who studied the spread of information — and misinformation — online and …
Vermont
Real or Fake? Test Your News Literacy by Taking Our Quiz
sevendaysvt.com - Cathy Resmer
When Hurricane Harvey hit Houston in the summer of 2017, photos of the damage circulated immediately on social media. One showed a shark swimming in …
News Literacy
Effort aims to teach news literacy
wcax.com - WCAX
BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) A photo of a shark swimming down a Houston highway last year during Hurricane Harvey is just one example of the numerous viral …
Radio Industry
In St. Louis, a ‘Mini J School’ makes public radio listeners advocates for real news
current.org - Joey Peters
Washington University’s popular Mini-Medical School gave Shelley Kerley and Jeff Bewley an idea. The mini–med school consists of evening lectures …
Teens
Influencer, celebrity, journalist? Teens are turning to YouTube for news, survey shows
USA TODAY - Madeline Purdue
The results are in: Teens turn to YouTube to keep up with current events instead of established news organizations. More than 75% of teens ages 13 to 17 say it’s important to them to follow current events,
News Literacy Project
California high school student named Gwen Ifill Student of the Year — News Literacy Project
newslit.org
Valeria Luquin, a high school sophomore who applies skills gleaned from the News Literacy Project’s Checkology® virtual classroom in her daily life, …
Jeffrey Epstein
Epstein Suicide Conspiracies Show How Our Information System Is Poisoned
The New York Times
Even on an internet bursting at the seams with conspiracy theories and hyperpartisanship, Saturday marked a new chapter in our post-truth, choose-your-own-reality crisis story. It began Saturday morning,
The dangerous cycle that keeps conspiracy theories in the news — and Trump’s tweets
The Washington Post - By Abby Ohlheiser
Conspiracy theories aren’t fueled by facts; they are fueled by attention. On Saturday, a baseless conspiracy theory about the death of Jeffrey Epstein gorged itself on a feast of the stuff, as a viral
Facebook
Fact-checkers have lost important digital tools — and will lose one more in September
poynter.org - Cristina Tardáguila
It’s been a tough year for fact-checkers. At least three major digital tools have been lost so far, and fact-checkers have already seen the impact on …
News Literacy Project
NLP working to counter the impacts of ‘Truth Decay’ — News Literacy Project
newslit.org
A new report from the RAND Corporation, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research organization, confirms what we at the News Literacy Project have long …
I teach my college students to lie. Honestly. Whoppers. It’s good for them.
The Washington Post - By David Lawrence Morse
When President Trump’s “false or misleading statements” surpassed 10,000 recently, as documented by the Washington Post Fact Checker, political commentators worried that Trump’s lying might encourage to
Fake News
Finland is winning the war on fake news. What it’s learned may be crucial to Western democracy
CNN
Mueller Report
Mueller Report—An Educational Tool for Teaching About Democracy - K-12 Technology
bigdealbook.com
Teachers can use the Mueller report—officially titled “Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election”—as the …
Information Literacy
Education Roundup: Tools for teaching media literacy
newscollab.org - What We're Reading
Step into the virtual classroom to guide the digital citizens of the future. A recent study found 82 percent of middle school students couldn’t …
Facebook
Ad Tool Facebook Built to Fight Disinformation Doesn’t Work as Advertised
The New York Times - By MATTHEW ROSENBERG
Faced with a rising backlash over the spread of disinformation in the aftermath of the 2016 elections, Facebook last year came up with a seemingly straightforward solution: It created an online library