USA Today article addresses protest misinformation, how to avoid it
In a June 1 USA Today article, Peter Adams, NLP’s senior vice president of education, discusses the hoaxes, fabrications, manipulated content and other protest misinformation proliferating on social media about widespread demonstrations against racial injustice. The protests were sparked by the death of George Floyd while in the custody of Minneapolis police on May 25. MSN News also published the piece, George Floyd protests: How to avoid disinformation and misinformation on Facebook and Twitter.