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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Students need to learn news literacy skills so they can navigate our complicated information landscape and avoid misinformation, said Ebonee Otoo, NLP’s senior vice president of educator engagement, in a recent interview with L.A. NPR station KCRW.  California recently joined a growing number of states requiring media literacy instruction in schools. Otoo explained what the…

NLP in the News