We all need to be clear-eyed about the social and political volatility heading into Election Day: The chances of sporadic violence, significant …
Be news-literate on election day and beyond
Articles and guides we recommend for staying news-literate on election day and in the days that follow. This collection will continue to be updated as long as election results are still being decided.
The experts agree: The best way to accurately track election results, and avoid falling for misinformation between now and Election Day, is to avoid too much social media. Stick with a handful of reputable...
NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press, one of several news organizations whose declarations of winners drive election coverage, is pulling back the curtain this year to explain how it is reaching those...
UPDATED Oct. 31, 2020, at 12:25 PM A complete guide to poll closing times, vote counting and races to watch on election night 2020 There’s a good …
Social media posts circulating ahead of Election Day advise Americans to drop off their ballots or cast it in person, warning they risk losing their …
Alan C. Miller Founder and CEO Note: This is the third in a periodic series of personal reflections on journalism, news literacy, education and related …
This year has been epic for political news, and many of its biggest story lines — the coronavirus, racial injustice and the 2020 campaign — have played out in states at least as much as they have in Washington....
Polls can't predict the future. But they are the best tool to reveal the public’s priorities and values, and why people vote the way they do.The post …
Authors: Kate Starbird (UW), Michael Caulfield (WSU), Renee DiResta (Stanford), Jevin West (UW), Emma Spiro (UW), Nicole Buckley (UW), Rachel Moran …
Nov. 2, 2020 Teach news literacy this week News-literate Election Day | Campaign rumors | Requiring news literacy education? Be news-literate on …
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U.S. Election Day is Nov. 3, 2020. Check your state’s vote-by-mail options. Browse our coverage of candidates and the issues. And just keep …
Watch out for images and videos being taken out of context. Election Day is here. We may see a flood of false information about President Donald Trump …
Washington (CNN) — President Donald Trump made a series of egregious false claims in his Election Night address at the White House -- falsely claiming he had already won re-election, that he had already...
(Nov. 4, 2020 – Washington, D.C.) Alan C. Miller, founder and CEO of the News Literacy Project, issued the following statement about the outcome of …
Twitter and Facebook applied labels to posts from President Donald Trump overnight which included baseless claims undermining the integrity of the election. But the two companies have very different approaches,...
This tweet from Factually’s founding father, former IFCN director Alexios Mantzarlis, sums it up perfectly — the longer we go without a definitive …
Isn’t it ironic? For the past four years, President Donald Trump has beaten up, verbally abused, assailed and ridiculed the media. He has called them …
Election officials are “still counting” ballots. Voters “wait” for a result. The nation is “tense,” “divided” and “in tumult.” That’s how the front pages of newspapers across the United States described...
Internal data shows that labels on President Trump’s posts decrease reshares by about 8%. They still account for some of the most engaging posts on …