Mother Jones gets expert advice on disinformation from NLP

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Mother Jones is offering readers some practical tips for identifying disinformation online — including guidance from Peter Adams, NLP’s senior vice president of education, and Claire Wardle of First Draft, the host of our Checkology® lesson on misinformation. It’s part of the magazine’s new disinformation beat, which includes asking readers to keep an eye out for (and report) dodgy social media posts and political ads in advance of November’s midterm elections.

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