Meta’s recent decision to end its third-party fact-checking program has reignited fears about misinformation’s growing influence. The move reflects a broader trend among social media giants: stepping away from content moderation in favor of engagement-driven algorithms.
Forbes
Activist groups have sued Elon Musk's social media platform X in a Berlin court, accusing it of breaking European law by not giving them the information they need to track disinformation online ahead of Germany's Feb. 23 national election.
Reuters
Vaccination rates among schoolchildren in Arizona have steadily declined since 2012, but the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the drop across the state. The trend is unlikely to reverse any time soon, which could result in serious health consequences for Arizonans in the future, experts fear.
Cronkite News
Andrea Rivera remembers when a friend told her that the state of California was planning to become its own country. She quickly searched through state government web sites, finding clarification for the post her friend had seen.
Stocktonia
A new report that surveyed residents of small towns across Canada says a lack of local news outlets weakens community ties and affects people’s understanding of how government, schools and hospitals function.
Toronto Star
Far-right populists are significantly more likely to spread fake news on social media than politicians from mainstream or far-left parties, according to a study which argues that amplifying misinformation is now part and parcel of radical right strategy.
The Guardian
As the senior administrator, Gladys Williams makes sure everyone is well fed, well entertained, well exercised — and well informed. In recent years, “well informed” has become more challenging, as older Americans get inundated by misinformation and disinformation aimed at scamming them, scaring them — or both.
The Washington Post
Phoenix ABC-TV affiliate ABC15, Scripps News, and the E.W. Scripps Company are teaming up with the News Literacy Project for the sixth annual News Literacy Week. In a world with an overwhelming media landscape, we know this is more important than ever.
ABC15 News Arizona
It only takes seconds for misinformation to be posted and shared on social media. The consequences of that were seen in real-time following the shooting at the Chiefs Super Bowl rally last year. Denton Loudermill Jr. was falsely labeled as the shooter.
KSHB-TV 41 Kansas City
The National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) has honored Cronkite School assistant teaching professor Celeste Sepessy with its Media Literacy Higher Education Teacher Award—recognition for her deep commitment and significant contributions to the field.
Walter Cronkite School of Journalism
Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching. This course is titled, ‘Investigating the Paranormal.’
The Conversation
Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn, is in a difficult position — on the outs with President Trump, a new administration and his former friend Elon Musk. He was one of the important tech bros not on the President's inauguration stage. Why?
National Public Radio
The COVID-19 pandemic illuminated a vast landscape of misinformation about many topics, science and health chief among them. Since then, information overload continues unabated, and many people are rightfully confused by an onslaught of conflicting health information. Even expert advice is often contradictory.
The Conversation
The Philippines launched a comic book last week to counter what the country says is China’s disinformation campaign to push its expansive territorial claims in the South China Sea.
The Associated Press
It is no understatement to say that social media has dramatically altered the news landscape, often degrading civic discourse into a battleground of misinformation. Young people, who spend much of their lives online, are thrown into this complex world without the necessary tools to navigate the falsehoods and conspiracy theories that crowd out the facts.
USA TODAY
over the past years, we’ve seen the emergence of a confluence of factors (including sourcing from automated, AI-generated social media trawls and strongly politicized information collection), which will inevitably create a distortion in conflict data.
POLITICO
A Russian organization linked to the Kremlin’s covert influence campaigns posted more than 8,000 political advertisements on Facebook despite European and American restrictions barring companies from doing business with the organization, according to three organizations that track disinformation online.
The New York Times
The former editor of USA TODAY was eager to get back to local news after taking in a firsthand view of the nation’s polarization and chaos spawned by misinformation. She knew local news was a solution for both.
The Poynter Institute
For Washington Secretary of State Steve Hobbs, safeguarding the integrity of elections is no easy task. Over the past 18 months, his office has identified 127 instances of false or misleading information about elections and election officials circulating online within the state.
Fox 13 Seattle
