USA Today article addresses protest misinformation, how to avoid it

Published on June 2, 2020 NLP in the News

In a June 1 USA Today article, Peter Adams, NLP’s senior vice president of education, discusses the hoaxes, fabrications, manipulated content and other protest misinformation proliferating on social media about widespread demonstrations against racial injustice. The protests were sparked by the death of George Floyd while in the custody of Minneapolis police on May 25. MSN News also published the piece, George Floyd protests: How to avoid disinformation and misinformation on Facebook and Twitter.

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Watch seventh graders share news literacy skills at a holiday dinner table

The holidays are a time to be together with loved ones, but conversations can get contentious if the topic turns to falsehoods circulating on social media or elsewhere. Luckily, the seventh-grade students at North Salem Middle/High School in New York know how to keep the mood civil around the dinner table by relying on news…

Published on Dec 2, 2024 NLP in the News

NLP helps you keep your holiday conversations civil

Using News Literacy Project resources, engage in civil conversation about misinformation over the holidays and guide loved ones to the facts.

Published on Nov 26, 2024 Updates

Support a fact-based future this Giving Tuesday!

This Giving Tuesday, help us make an even greater impact.

Published on Nov 26, 2024 Updates