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)