Mashable features NLP as a tool to counter ‘fake news’

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Small Humans, a Mashable series about raising children, explored the skills children need to avoid being fooled by “fake news.” Among the experts interviewed was Peter Adams, our senior vice president of education, who said that equipping teens to deal with misinformation is a moral imperative. “Information is the basis of students’ civic literacy, civic engagement, and civic empowerment, so to not give them the tools they need to navigate the 21st-century information landscape and make smart decisions is fundamentally disempowering,” he said.

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Welcome to the Insider Spotlight, where we feature real questions from our team and answers from educators who are making a difference teaching news literacy. This month, our featured educator is Kalynne Pudner from Shorewood, Wisconsin, where she teaches ELA to middle school students.

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How news literacy lessons help students navigate AI

Artificial intelligence technologies are flooding the internet with misleading and fake videos, photos and posts. Hannah Covington, senior director of education content at the News Literacy Project, recently visited classrooms in Oklahoma to see how news literacy lessons are helping students find credible information.   In an op-ed for The Oklahoman, she writes: “In the age…

NLP in the News