The Conversation features NLP’s election misinformation dashboard, suggests ways to keep a healthy ‘political information diet’ 

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There are ways to prepare and maintain your social media feed during the election season to better “manage your political information diet.” The News Literacy Project’s Misinformation Dashboard: Election 2024 is highlighted as a reason to be cautious in believing everything you see. The dashboard list hundreds of instances of altered photos, videos and misleading memes being used to spread falsehoods about the candidates and voting. If need be, step away from the scrolling for a bit, the article recommends.

 Read the article in The Conversation 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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