News Literacy Project comments on misinformation targeting Latino voters for New York Times report


Latino voting rights groups are fighting rumors and disinformation designed to sow distrust in the U.S. election. The News Literacy Project’s Peter Adams, Senior Vice President of Research and Design, notes one trend shown in NLP’s election misinformation dashboard: falsehoods that link Vice President Kamala Harris with communism.

Read the New York Times story here. Visit the News Literacy Project’s Misinformation Dashboard: Election 2024 here. Read more about the election misinformation trends NLP is tracking here.

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Insider Spotlight: Jennifer Liang

Welcome to the Insider Spotlight section, where we feature real questions from our team and answers from educators who are making a difference teaching news literacy. This month, our featured educator is Jennifer Liang from Atlanta, Georgia, where she teaches Media Literacy to high school students with incidence disabilities, like autism and ADHD.

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