Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss showcases The Sift
The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss features content from The Sift® in her blog Answer Sheet throughout the school year. These installments are for the 2021-22 academic year.
- ‘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)