May 03 Watch 6:07 Is Facebook taking its impact on society more seriously? By PBS NewsHour Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Wednesday that the company will add 3,000 more workers to monitor live video after problems with hate speech and violence, including murder and suicide. Hari Sreenivasan talks to Farhad Manjoo of The New York Times… Continue watching
May 03 Watch 7:14 By murder, prison and rhetoric, here’s how the global free press is being suppressed By PBS NewsHour Journalists around the world sometimes risk death or imprisonment to inform the public. In Mexico, dozens have been killed by drug cartels, the Turkish government has been cracking down by closing newspapers and locking up reporters, and U.S. reporters are… Continue watching
May 02 Teachers not shying away from divisive political discussion, survey suggests By Madeline Will, Education Week Months after the 2016 presidential election, a majority of educators polled say that national politics have created a sharp divide among students, leaving teachers grappling with how to handle classroom conversations about controversial issues. Continue reading
Apr 03 Watch 6:42 News Wrap: Neil Gorsuch passes Senate hurdle as Democrats reach 41 ‘no’ votes By PBS NewsHour In our news wrap Monday, the stage is set for a bitter showdown over Neil Gorsuch. The Supreme Court nominee cleared the Judiciary Committee, but it came as Democrats secured enough votes to withstand a Republican attempt to break a… Continue watching
Mar 30 Watch 8:53 First public Senate Intelligence hearing on Russia probe highlights influence of disinformation By PBS NewsHour The Senate Intelligence Committee held its first public hearing on Russia's election season meddling, where both committee leaders made clear they wanted to avoid the partisanship that's plagued their House counterparts' investigation. They focused on issues from the very real… Continue watching
Mar 15 Plea deal reached for man who fired shots inside DC pizzeria By Matthew Barakat, Associated Press The man was investigating phony rumors of child sex trafficking -- a conspiracy theory that became known as "Pizzagate" -- at a pizza shop in December. Continue reading
Feb 23 Column: How to help students discover the whole truth By David Cutler Editor’s note: Educators across the country have had to confront the rise in influence of “fake news” or online news hoaxes, particularly in the wake of the election when the phrase became a buzz word. How do we instill in… Continue reading
Feb 13 Why these librarians are protesting Trump’s executive orders By Elizabeth Flock Since Trump took office last month, a vocal and growing number of librarians across the country are taking a more politically active stance. Continue reading
Jan 17 WATCH: U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power on Israel, challenge of fake news By News Desk U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power defended the decision to abstain from a U.N. Security Council vote in December to condemn Israeli settlements, saying that “the building has to stop.”… Continue reading
Jan 11 Watch 14:38 How credible are reports that Russia has compromising information about Trump? By PBS NewsHour On Tuesday evening, CNN reported unsubstantiated claims that Russian intelligence compiled a dossier on the president-elect during his visits to Moscow; BuzzFeed later published 35 pages of content from the alleged dossier. But Mr. Trump dismissed the developments as “fake… Continue watching