NLP’s Peter Adams talks confirmation bias

Published on November 11, 2016 NLP in the News

News literacy is a vital asset

In The Mercury (Manhattan, Kansas), Adams, the News Literacy Project’s senior vice president for educational programs, discusses the ways in which confirmation bias and media echo chambers distort fact — and how news literacy education can help moving forward.

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