For Education Week, educators share how they teach students to question health influencers

The News Literacy Project’s research shows that 8 in 10 teens see conspiracy theories on their social feeds, and of those, 81% believe in at least one. In a first-person piece for The 74, Hannah Covington, the News Literacy Project’s Senior Director of Education Content, shares what teens in Oklahoma told her about learning to…

Viral rumors and falsehoods have spread in the wake of political protests, particularly recent ones opposing detentions by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. In a story for Mashable, Peter Adams, Senior Vice president of Research and Design at the News Literacy Project, offered tips for news consumers to avoid getting tricked by false…

Peter Adams, the News Literacy Project’s Senior Vice President of Research and Design, was featured in a CNN article examining the use of artificial intelligence to generate content in newsrooms and the challenges it raises around verification and transparency. “It is precisely because AI is prone to errors that newsrooms must maintain the ‘fundamental standards…