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To navigate the dangers of the web, you need critical thinking – but also critical ignoring | The Conversation
by Sam Wineburg
1 day ago
The web is a treacherous place. A website’s author may not be its author. References that confer legitimacy may have…
Facebook and the Normalization of Deviance | The New Yorker
by Sue Halpern
May 4, 2021
When the sociologist Diane Vaughan came up with the term “the normalization of deviance,” she was referring to NASA administrators’…
How do audiences decide what news to trust? Fairness and accuracy aren’t the only things that matter | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Benjamin Toff, Sumitra Badrinathan, Camila Mont'alverne, and Amy Ross Arguedas
April 26, 2021
This week, our team of researchers at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism published a new report that…
What is Stronger Than Hate? Lessons from Testimony, Media, and Scholarship | Shorenstein Center
April 25, 2021
Panel Discussion: Media scholars and experts on how to combat the rise of hate and the disinformation that spreads it.…
How to Talk to Friends and Family Who Share Misinformation | PEN America
by Pen America
April 23, 2021
You might know the feeling: You see your aunt, cousin, or friend share something on Facebook, but you doubt the…
Managing the infodemic about COVID‐19: Strategies for clinicians and researchers | Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
by Jan Scott
April 19, 2021
The exponential increase in demand for and dissemination of information about COVID‐19 means the pandemic has been accompanied by an…
How Facebook’s Ad System Lets Companies Talk Out of Both Sides of Their Mouths | The Markup
by Jeremy B. Merrill
April 14, 2021
Liberals on Facebook are given one picture of ExxonMobil. To them, the multibillion-dollar oil giant sells itself as turning over…
COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy begins to fade, but stubborn resistance remains among evangelicals | San Bernardino Sun
by Teri Sforza
April 11, 2021
He has been pushed off Facebook and banned from Twitter, but Larry Cook battles on at StopMandatoryVaccination.com, where the Los…
Families divided over COVID-19 misinformation from conflicting news sources | ABC News
by Erwin Renaldi
April 8, 2021
If you have ever engaged in heated debates with your family members about COVID-19 and vaccines, you're not alone. As Australia's…