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  • These Students Are Learning About Fake News and How to Spot It

    February 20, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Some schools are formally adding media literacy education to their curricula. Lessons train students to spot fake news and navigate the non-stop media cycle.

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  • Meet the doctors fighting anti-vax attackers online

    February 06, 2020 |

    Coda Story |

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    Response Location: United States

    Shots Heard Round the World, is a physician-founded team of over 500 doctors, lawyers, nurses, and vaccine advocates who live around the world. When doctors, scientists, or others are attacked on social media for advocating the importance and safety of vaccines, the group steps in. Members take shifts around the clock and use a two-pronged approach. They hide, block, and report anti-vaccine bullies who post on advocates’ pages while also flooding the pages with supportive comments, mimicking the blitzing technique often used by anti-vaxxers.

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  • How Finland starts its fight against fake news in primary schools

    January 29, 2020 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Finland, Helinski

    Building successful resistance to fake information begins with primary education. Finland’s national school curriculum encourages information and media literacy along with critical thinking. The pilot program consists of training teachers, journalists, civil servants, and others in information literacy. The curriculum emphasizes three categories of fake news: misinformation (mistakes), disinformation (lies), and malformation (conspiracies).

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  • This handy browser plug-in combats fake news with ratings of thousands of news websites

    December 27, 2019 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Allowing news consumers to more carefully vet media outlets can help stem the proliferation of fake news. NewsGuard, a web browser plug-in gives users a “nutrition label” for news websites by ranking them on a scale of trustworthiness. The service employs trained journalists and is working to make its plug-in available in libraries, as well.

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  • The way we talk about climate change matters

    September 26, 2019 |

    Boulder Weekly |

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    Response Location: United States, Boulder, Colorado

    The Media and Climate Change Observatory at the University of Colorado - Boulder has been tracking media coverage of climate change in an effort to improve and provide analysis of it. As awareness of the climate crisis grows around the world, the need to shift away from alarmist information and toward actionable, applicable information also increases. While scientific reports are necessary, delivering information through mediums like comedy or performance art has proven to reach a wider audience.

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  • Finland is winning the war on fake news. Other nations want the blueprint

    May 18, 2019 |

    CNN |

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    Response Location: Finland, Helsinki

    Teaching students to fact check encourages resilience and builds resistance to the post-truth phenomenon. In Finland, a school curriculum implemented at the national level equips elementary and high school students with a digital literacy toolkit geared toward recognizing disinformation online. In addition to specific exercises spotting fake news on social media platforms, a critical thinking curriculum is built into all subjects. Finland's success in fostering a social resilience against disinformation also draws on lessons from the country's oftentimes fraught history with its eastern neighbor.

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  • 'Calling bullshit': the college class on how not to be duped by the news

    April 17, 2019 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington

    At the University of Washington, "Calling Bullshit: Data Reasoning in a Digital World" goes beyond teaching students how to spot "fake news" to show students how to detect misinformation in the reputable places, such as scientific journal articles and lectures, they might not expect to find it.

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  • Students In Ukraine Learn How To Spot Fake Stories, Propaganda And Hate Speech

    March 22, 2019 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: Ukraine, Mariupol

    In Ukraine, IREX has developed its Listen to Discern program, which trains students how to separate fact from fiction and overall media literacy. Through methods like reverse image searching and photo forensics, teachers have integrated media literacy into all aspects of the classroom. Research found that students who completed the training were better able to root out false information, hate speech, and propaganda.

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  • Anti-vaxx propaganda has gone viral on Facebook. Pinterest has a cure

    February 21, 2019 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    Correcting "data voids," which provide the space for conspiracies to flourish online, requires online platforms to take active measures against misinformation. In the face of digital marketing incentive structures and biases in search algorithms, scientific journals can’t produce enough content to dispel assumptions of false equivalency between science and propaganda, creating a data gap. Pinterest is currently one of the few companies trying to correct this imbalance between settled science and misinformation campaigns characteristic of many online social media platforms.

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  • The Spread of Fake News Has Had Deadly Consequences in Mexico. Meet the People Trying to Stop It.

    February 15, 2019 |

    Pacific Standard |

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    Independent journalists and upstart news organizations in Mexico have banded together to counter potentially deadly or disruptive fake news with a highly organized fact-checking campaign calling itself Verificado. Besides debunking hundreds of false political rumors in the 2018 elections, the coalition has fact-checked the sort of fake news that has prompted mobs to carry out hundreds of lynchings. One WhatsApp fact-verifying account enabling anyone to submit requests for debunking stories has been used extensively by mostly young readers.

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