Fake news is not going to go away. We need to be selective and responsible. And support news organizations that are credible and trust-worthy. (Ad Fontes media) This is the latest in a series of articles on fake news. A woman in the town-library meeting room eyed me...
Fake news threatens democracy by eroding trust. Students and media experts discussed what to do about fake news in three News-Decoder webinars. This is part of a News-Decoder series on fake news. Fake news matters because it goes right to the heart of democracy....
The U.S. moon landing was a hoax. Trump wears a wig. The new iPhone is transparent. Fake news or real? News-Decoder students know. A manipulated image that has been used to buttress fake news stories This is part of a series of News-Decoder stories on fake news....
This is the first in a series of News-Decoder articles on fake news. By Nelson Graves What is fake news? How does it spread? What can we do about it? News-Decoder has been working with students around the world to address these questions, which have acquired urgency...
Increasingly we are living in media silos that divide us from large numbers of fellow citizens. Here are some tricks for bursting your media bubble. Worried about alternative facts? Try entering an alternative universe. Like it or not, each of us lives in a media...
Is Donald Trump’s administration straight out of George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984”? Or is the U.S. mainstream media in an anti-Trump frenzy? The logo of Ingsoc, the political ideology of the totalitarian government of Oceania, in George...
By Yesenia Mozo I live in a couple of different worlds. One is within me — a queer person of color, born of immigrant parents, fighting for an education despite strapped family finances. This world often collides with others, particularly with my world at home....
By Rashad Mammadov Two years ago, a pair of American political scientists published a study that found that the U.S. system of government is closer to oligarchy — or rule by the few — than to democracy. Martin Gilens of Princeton University and Benjamin...
Instagram’s new “Stories” platform taps into a human desire to share emotions and is re-shaping global marketing and social media. A woman with a frame of Instagram, Mexico City, Mexico, 26 November 2014.(EPA/Sashenka Gutierrez) We encourage our...
An information battle between Ukraine and Russia has brought out the worst in their media machines. It’s time for a Ukraine with an independent media. Ukraine’s Jamala with her country’s flag after winning the Eurovision Song Contest, Stockholm, Sweden, 14 May...