New Jersey is now requiring all students in grades K-12 to be taught “media literacy” as a means of fighting so-called misinformation. “Our democracy remains under sustained attack through the proliferation of disinformation that is ...
News Analysis Clusters of new social media profiles emerge and interact with long-dormant accounts, seemingly exchanging viewpoints from across the American political spectrum. Some sport American flags for profile pictures; others have images of beautiful ...
Summer Lopez, chief program officer of PEN America’s Free Expression Programs, discusses the psychology and spreading of disinformation and how to avoid injecting it into public discourse. The webinar will be moderated by Carla Anne Robbins, ...
Google is funneling revenue to some of the web’s most prolific purveyors of false information in Europe, Latin America and Africa, a ProPublica investigation has found. The company has publicly committed to fighting disinformation around ...
There’s plenty of intrigue around Tuesday’s midterm elections, but this much is certain: social media will be a nightmare. News outlets across the country are warning about the imminent denial of misinformation, disinformation, conspiratorial thinking, ...
Political mailers have been commonplace in election years, telling voters who or who not to support and where they stand on the issues. However, in recent weeks, a similar albeit alternative form of dissemination has ...
PODGORICA, 27 October 2022 – Independent, diverse and quality public-interest journalism and widespread media-literacy are the best antidote to disinformation. These were some of the conclusions from a regional conference on Media and Digital Literacy ...
While curriculum in Canada is a provincial and territorial responsibility, there is room for the federal government to establish national standards for digital media literacy. On a broader scale, we must adopt a national digital media literacy strategy. All ...
Workshops Created to Address the Threat to Democracy and Open Discourse from the Deliberate Spread of False Information (NEW YORK)—A new study by the Stanford Social Media Lab evaluating the effectiveness of PEN America’s media ...
Comment on this story Comment ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s main opposition party applied to the country’s supreme court on Tuesday seeking a suspension of the enforcement of a newly-approved media law that mandates prison terms ...
