Pittsburgh Post-Gazette features News Literacy Project’s election misinformation dashboard

Published on October 20, 2024 NLP in the News

The News Literacy Project’s election misinformation dashboard was prominently featured in an article examining the falsehoods proliferating during this year’s elections. Experts in the fields of public health and political misinformation assessed NLP’s data reflecting hundreds of false claims about the candidates and the election, and spoke of the confusion that murky information causes among would-be voters.

Read the piece in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (paywall) here. Visit the News Literacy Project’s Misinformation Dashboard: Election 2024 here. Read more about the misinformation trends NLP is tracking here.

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