The Sift featured weekly in blog by Valerie Strauss of Washington Post
The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss features content from The Sift® in her blog Answer Sheet weekly throughout the school year. These are the installments for the 2020-21 academic year.
- Twisting LeBron James’s words, a fake Saturn photo and other news literacy lessons (May 14, 2021)
- Clarity or deception in ‘60 Minutes’ report on Florida’s vaccine rollout? A news literacy lesson. (April 15, 2021)
- No, thousands of people did not die from the coronavirus vaccine — and other news literacy lessons (April 7, 2021)
- No, that’s not Tom Cruise: ‘Deepfake’ videos, phony pictures and tweets — and other news literacy lessons (March 6, 2021)
- A look at phony tweets about Ted Cruz and Trump’s impeachment — and more lessons on news literacy(Feb. 26, 2021)
- No, the CDC did not order people to wear two masks — and other lessons on fake news (Feb. 14, 2021)
- Debunking anti-vaxxer RFK Jr.’s claim about ‘suspicious’ coronavirus vaccine deaths, a phony Elon Musk tweet and more news literacy lessons (Feb. 5, 2021)
- No, a military band did not play ‘Hit the Road Jack’ to Trump — and other news literacy lessons (Jan. 29, 2021)
- No, viral video doesn’t show police removing barriers for Capitol rioters — and other news literacy lessons on insurrection (Jan. 14, 2021)
- No, covid-19 vaccines didn’t kill any trial participants — and more parsing of latest disinformation on the shots (Dec. 16, 2020)
- No, coronavirus vaccines aren’t made from aborted fetuses or created to control the population — and more lessons about fake news (Dec. 8, 2020)
- Learning the real story of covid-19 through comics — and other news literacy lessons (Nov. 27, 2020)
- Bogus crowd photos at ‘Million MAGA March’ and other news literacy lessons (Nov. 19, 2020)
- No, a state trooper in Arizona did not find 50,000 Trump votes in a dumpster — and other news literacy lessons about the election (Nov. 9, 2020)
- When race is relevant in headlines — and other news literacy lessons (N0v. 5, 2020)
- New ‘Media Manipulation Casebook’ from Harvard teaches how to detect misinformation campaigns (Oct. 28, 2020)
- Teaching kids to spot misinformation on social media — and whether enough is being done to get rid of it (Oct. 22, 2020)
- It’s been a week for Trump conspiracy theories. Here’s how to teach students to identify them — and more news literacy lessons. (Oct. 8, 2020)
- How the media covered Breonna Taylor ruling — and more news literacy lessons(Sept. 30, 2020)
- How QAnon is spreading during the pandemic — and more lessons on fake news (Sept. 23, 2020)
- No, antifa supporters aren’t setting fires in the West — and more lessons on fake news about covid-19, Trump and Biden (Sept. 16, 2020)