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Misinformation vs. The Machine: Foundations of News Literacy | The Colorado Sun
March 28, 2022
The Colorado Sun and News Literacy Project bring you a three-part series about helping leaders teach others about fact from…
The Present and Future of Misinformation in Canada | The Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy at McGill University
March 28, 2022
A roundtable focused on misinformation challenges in Canada and what, if anything, we can do about it. About this event…
For journalists, Ukraine is a WhatsApp War | Columbia Journalism Review
by Joel Simon
March 23, 2022
Lindsey Hilsum, a correspondent for Britain’s Channel 4 News, is one of the most experienced conflict reporters covering the Ukraine…
Listen: Could libel lawsuits squash misinformation? | NPR
by David Folkenflik
March 14, 2022
David Folkenflik asks attorney John Langford about using libel laws to combat misinformation in the media. Source: Could libel lawsuits…
How publishers are tackling the war disinformation problem on TikTok | Digiday
by Kayleigh Barber
March 10, 2022
Misinformation ricochets around the internet during any world event or political conflict — that’s nothing new — but TikTok poses…
TikTok Was Designed for War | WIRED
by Chris Stokel-Walker
March 3, 2022
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is not the first social media war—but it is the first to play out on TikTok.…
How many people really watch or read RT, anyway? It’s hard to tell, but some of their social numbers are eye-popping | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Joshua Benton
March 3, 2022
Is RT’s international audience real? That’s an important question, as regulators and distributors debate where the Kremlin-backed network falls on…
Jon Stewart defends Joe Rogan over COVID ‘misinformation’ | The New York Post
by Ariel Zilber
February 14, 2022
Jon Stewart is coming to the defense of fellow podcaster Joe Rogan over the uproar surrounding “misinformation” about vaccines that…
An incomplete history of Forbes.com as a platform for scams, grift, and bad journalism | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Joshua Benton
February 10, 2022
I sometimes think about what the, oh, 1997 version of me would find most surprising about the news industry of…