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 News Hour 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
Jan 06 Column: Can librarians help solve the fake news problem? By Donald A. Barclay for The Conversation As a long-time academic librarian, I have spent a good part of my career teaching college students to think critically about information. For me, the recent spate of stories about large segments of the population falling for fake news stories… Continue reading
Dec 15 Watch 7:09 Will new tools help Facebook users get the facts on fake news? By PBS News Hour During the last three months of the campaign, fake news headlines drew more engagement than real reporting, and social media platforms were criticized for not doing enough to dispute false information. Now Facebook is launching new tools to help identify… Continue watching
Dec 15 Facebook unveils plan to flag fake news stories By Courtney Norris A drop-down menu will now allow users to report Facebook content as a “fake news story.”… Continue reading
Dec 14 Students have struggled with fake news for longer than you think By Benjamin Herold, Education Week For schools, media literacy is an “enduring issue” that predates social media and the internet, said Lawrence Paska of the National Council for the Social Studies. Continue reading
Dec 13 Column: Most teens can’t tell fake from real news By Sam Wineburg, Sarah McGrew In the age of so-called fake news, students would benefit by learning the strategies fact-checkers use to evaluate online information. Continue reading
Dec 09 Watch 9:29 The ‘thrill of the chase’ in perpetuating fake news By PBS News Hour This election cycle saw its fair share of so-called “fake news.” On December 4, an armed man walked into a Washington, DC, pizza joint, claiming he needed to investigate a story he had heard: that Hillary Clinton and her former… Continue watching
Dec 05 The very real consequences of fake news stories and why your brain can’t ignore them By Nsikan Akpan Incidents like the #Pizzagate shooting signify one step in a long, dark trail of real world consequences caused by fake news. Experts explain this history and why these stories are so hard to ignore. Continue reading
Nov 17 Watch 7:06 How online hoaxes and fake news played a role in the election By PBS News Hour Tech giants like Google and Facebook face mounting criticism over whether they used insufficient discretion in weeding out fake news. A Buzzfeed analysis found that false stories generated more engagement than content from real news sites in the three months… Continue watching