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NLP in Newsweek column: Need to teach people to ‘resist misinformation’

NLP in the News

In a Nov. 21 Newsweek column,”Facebook Won’t Save Us From Fake News. We Need to Teach People to Resist Misinformation | Opinion,” by Helen Lee Bouygues, founder of the Reboot Foundation, says of NLP: “There are some positive signs here in the United States. Several organizations, including Stony Brook University and the News Literacy Project, are working to develop media literacy curricula and other resources for teachers.”

 

 

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