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In 1907, statistician Francis Galton observed something strange at a county fair: Attendees were participating in a game where they guessed the weight of an ox, with the closest answer […]
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Late last week, the world started to hear about a new coronavirus variant that had already started to worry scientists: B.1.1.529, which was first detected in southern Africa earlier this […]
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On Friday afternoons this fall, top American news executives have dialed into a series of off-the-record Zoom meetings led by Harvard academics whose goal is to âhelp newsroom leaders fight […]
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A common way to tackle misinformation, especially health misinformation, is to ignore it. And this is a strategy often employed by authority figures â sidestep the misinformation, donât give it […]
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An FBI raid on Project Veritas leader James O’Keefeâs home in early November 2021 has sparked an unusual demonstration of support from the very establishment media that O’Keefe has spent […]
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The title of a recent Facebook video claims that the military has taken over the mainstream media. âMilitary takes over MSM to broadcast a truthful event,â the Nov. 17 title says. […]
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Here is the latest installment of a weekly feature I have been running for some time on this blog â lessons from the nonprofit News Literacy Project, which aims to teach […]
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A journalist in Asia for 35 years, Maria Ressa co-founded Rappler.com, the top digital-only news site that is leading the fight for press freedom in the Philippines. As Rapplerâs CEO […]
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IN JANUARY, the Aspen Institute set up a Commission on Information Disorder, and announced a star-studded group of participantsâincluding Katie Couric, former global news anchor for Yahoo; Jameel Jaffer, executive […]