Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss showcases The Sift

Washington Post education reporter Valerie Strauss features content from The Sift^®,  NLP’s free weekly newsletter for educators, in her blog throughout the school year.

• Using ChatGPT for disinformation and other news literacy lessons (Feb. 2, 2023
• Lisa Marie Presley’s death, AI problems and more news literacy lessons (Jan. 25, 2023)
• News literacy lessons: ‘Shark Week,’ Stephen Curry video, toxic social media  (Dec, 17, 2022)
• Twitter chaos, LeBron James, Kyrie Irving and more news literacy lessons (Nov. 20, 2022)
• Katy Perry’s eye, zombie rumors and other news literacy lessons (Nov. 3, 2022)
• No, Eagles fans didn’t loudly boo Jill Biden — and other news literacy lessons (Oct. 27, 2022)
• A  bogus claim about the 2022 World Cup — and other news literacy lessons  (Oct. 21, 2022)
• Seeing through conspiracy theories — and other news literacy lessons (Oct. 7, 2022)
  
• Detecting impostor content on social media — and other news literacy lessons (Sept. 25, 2022)
• Out-of -context Clarence Thomas photo — and other news literacy lessons (May 19, 2022)
• ‘News and information chaos’ grows — and other news literacy lessons (May 12, 2022)
• Live-streaming Depp-Heard trial and other news literacy lessons  (May 4, 2022)
• A fainting nurse, Eric Trump’s false data and more news literacy items (April 27, 2022)
• Detecting Russia’s false claims that Ukrainians are staging deaths (April 21, 2022)
• Marjorie Taylor Greene, disinformation on Ukraine casualties and other news literacy lessons (March 22, 2022)
• Russia’s fake ‘fact-checking’ Ukraine videos and other news literacy lessons (March 17, 2022)
• No, Time magazine didn’t publish a Putin-Hitler cover, and other news literacy lessons (March 10, 2022)
• Florida governor — who mocked kids for wearing masks — doubles down: ‘Curtain call for covid theater’ (March 2, 2022)
• How to avoid being duped by false Ukraine information — and other news literacy lessons (March 2, 2022)
• Joe Rogan, vaccine deniers and other news literacy lessons (Feb. 6, 2022)
  
• TikTok’s ‘suggestion’ algorithm, Ben Affleck’s shirt and more news literacy lessons (Jan. 14, 2022)
• How ‘Birds Aren’t Real’ became experiment in misinformation — and more news literacy lessons (Dec. 16, 2021)
  
• How cute animal videos are used to spread misinformation — and other news literacy lessons (Dec. 9, 2021)
• The link between covid-19 misinformation and news outlets — and other news literacy lessons  (Nov. 19, 2021)
• News Literacy lessons on Facebook, Marjorie Taylor Greene and more  (Nov. 7, 2021)
• Why two journalists won the Nobel Peace Prize — and other news literacy lessons (Oct. 21, 2021)
• 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)
• Marketplace Ideas more Lessons Fake News” (May 19, 2020)
• “Covid 19 Conspiracy Video Goes Viral Flamingos Venice Other Lessons Fake News” (May 12, 2020)
• “Seen Photos People Ignoring Social Distancing Rules Why Some Are Misleading Plus Primer Spotting Fake News” (May 5, 2020)
• “Three Doctored Covid-19 Protest Photos Other Lessons Fake News” (April 28, 2020)
• “No Microwaving Masks Doesn’t Sanitize Them More Lessons What’s Real Fake Covid-19 News” (April 15, 2020)
• “No Coronavirus is Not False Flag Event or Linked 5g Cell Towers That More News Literacy Lessons” (April 9, 2020)
• “News Literacy Lessons Wrong Ways People Believe Covid-19 Began” (March 25, 2020)
• “Five Tips Students Coronavirus Pandemic News Literacy Lessons” (March 19, 2020)
• “Coronavirus Spreads so does Misinformation News Literacy Lesson” (March 11, 2020)
• “News Literacy Lessons: Student Finds Flaw Twitters Candidate Verification Teens Turn TikTok Politics” (March 3, 2020)
• “News Literacy Lessons Bloomberg Tests Social Media Rules Plus China’s Censorship Virus Outbreak” (Feb. 25, 2020)
• “News Literacy Lessons: Have you Stopped Talking People Because Their Political Views” (Feb. 14, 2020)
• “News Literacy Lessons: How Pandemic Misinformation About Coronavirus Has Far Outpaced Diseases Spread “(Feb. 5, 2020)N
• “News Literacy Lessons: How Damaging Fake News is Spreading About China’s Virus Outbreak” (Jan. 28, 2020)
• “News Literacy Lessons: Why Piece About Facebook Teen Vogue Sparked Confusion”(Jan. 15, 2020)
• “News Literacy Lessons: How Satirical Story About Democrats Qasem Soleimani Was Spread Fact Plus Doctored Video Joe Biden” (Jan. 7, 2020)
• “News literacy lessons: Clint Eastwood’s ‘Richard Jewell’ film and Greta Thunberg” (Dec. 18, 2019)
• “News literacy lessons: Manipulating social media and letters to soldiers” (Dec. 10, 2019)
• “News literacy lessons: Measles vaccine misinformation, and getting banned on TikTok” (Dec. 3, 2019)
• “News literacy lessons: Students show ‘troubling’ lack of information skills — plus a Sacha Baron Cohen speech” (Nov. 26, 2019)
• “Fighting the misinformation pandemic: Here’s help teaching students to distinguish real news from what’s fake” (Nov. 19, 2019)