NBC’s Morning News Now spotlights the need for news literacy during election season
Fake celebrity endorsements, video clips taken out of context, rumors that start small and end up spreading worldwide: In an on-camera interview, the News Literacy Project’s Peter Adams, Senior Vice President of Research and Design, focuses on the need to identify and resist election-related falsehoods. Adams points to NLP’s Misinformation Dashboard: Election 2024, which is full of examples of rumors swirling around the candidates and voting, and suggests that people turn to standards-based news sources to verify what they see.
Watch the NBC news clip here. Visit the News Literacy Project’s Misinformation Dashboard: Election 2024 here. Read more about the election misinformation trends NLP is tracking here.