Juneau Empire publishes NLP’s column on ‘fake news’

This blog post, part of a new limited series from the News Literacy Project, provides updates and analysis from the Misinformation Dashboard: Election 2024.

NLP’s Misinformation Dashboard: Election 2024 collects viral falsehoods and puts them in context by analyzing common trends and topics.

In my life before NLP, I was a middle school teacher, and later, a school district superintendent. These experiences were ideal preparation for doing the important work of ensuring news literacy is a national education priority. In fact, there is a direct through line. Let me explain. When my eighth grade U.S. history students walked…