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NBC’s Morning News Now spotlights the need for news literacy during election season

NLP in the News

Fake celebrity endorsements, video clips taken out of context, rumors that start small and end up spreading worldwide: In an on-camera interview, the News Literacy Project’s Peter Adams, Senior Vice President of Research and Design, focuses on the need to identify and resist election-related falsehoods. Adams points to NLP’s Misinformation Dashboard: Election 2024, which is full of examples of rumors swirling around the candidates and voting, and suggests that people turn to standards-based news sources to verify what they see.

Watch the NBC news clip here. Visit the News Literacy Project’s Misinformation Dashboard: Election 2024 here. Read more about the election misinformation trends NLP is tracking here.

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