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Listen 6 min Comment on this story Comment Gift Article Here’s the latest installment of a regular feature I’ve been running for several years: lessons from the nonprofit News Literacy Project (NLP), which aims to teach students and the public how to sort fact from fiction in our digital and …
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“We know what happened in 2020,” said state Rep. Janel Brandtjen, a Republican from Menomonee Falls. “Powerful and rich forces are aligned against me,” said Michael Gableman, a former state Supreme Court Justice. “Was it rigged? Was it fixed? I’m going to stop it!” said Tim Michels, the 2022 …
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I was interviewed by many journalists in 2020 about the pandemic, and the question they kept asking me was some version of, “What exactly is going on here?” They were not clueless about COVID-19. Rather, they were trying to make sense of a strange fraternization they were witnessing in the middle …
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A few weeks after Podesta’s emails were leaked and “Pizzagate” started gaining traction online, a 28-year-old man walked into the northwest Washington pizzeria with an AR-15 rifle. After his search of the premises yielded no dungeon holding child sex slaves, he fired his gun at a locked door before …
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Conversational strategies used in sample comments on YouTube. During the Covid-19 pandemic, YouTube introduced new policies and guidelines aimed at limiting the spread of medical misinformation about the virus on the platform. But the study found the comments feature remains relatively unmoderated …
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We might, as your columnist Gideon Rachman does, label those delusional (if not deranged) world leaders such as Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump as conspiracy theorists (“When world leaders believe in conspiracies”, Opinion, October 4). One would be correct in doing so — irrefutably — as Trump has …
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Viral rumor rundown No, an elephant seal didn’t wander the streets after Hurricane Ian NO: This video was not captured in Florida during Hurricane Ian in September 2022. YES: This is a genuine video of an elephant seal roaming the streets after being stranded in the seaside town of Puerto Cisnes, …
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No biodefense research is purely defensive – to do the work, you’re automatically engaged in the creation of biological weapons. Early on in the Covid pandemic, Francis Boyle, PhD., was sure it was the result of a lab leak. He believes monkeypox is another lab creation, as it now suddenly has 30 …
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By Jill Colvin | AP, WARREN, Mich. — Paige Cole is one of the “Anons.” The mother of three from Eastpointe, Michigan, says Joe Biden is a sham president and believes Donald Trump will soon be reinstated to the White House to finish the remainder of Biden’s term. “His whole inauguration was fake. He …
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Week in Review A documentary on those spreading harmful disinformation in New Zealand drew outrage from its targets. However, in our search for balance, writes senior journalism lecturer Dr Greg Treadwell, there is a duty to not empower the lies and propaganda. It feels as though the ice might be …
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