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How Finland starts its fight against fake news in primary schools

Jon Henley

January 29, 2020 |

The Guardian |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Finland, Helinski

Building successful resistance to fake information begins with primary education. Finland’s national school curriculum encourages information and media literacy along with critical thinking. The pilot program consists of training teachers, journalists, civil servants, and others in information literacy. The curriculum emphasizes three categories of fake news: misinformation (mistakes), disinformation (lies), and malformation (conspiracies).

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This handy browser plug-in combats fake news with ratings of thousands of news websites

Larry Platt

December 27, 2019 |

The Philadelphia Citizen |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, New York, New York

Allowing news consumers to more carefully vet media outlets can help stem the proliferation of fake news. NewsGuard, a web browser plug-in gives users a “nutrition label” for news websites by ranking them on a scale of trustworthiness. The service employs trained journalists and is working to make its plug-in available in libraries, as well.

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The way we talk about climate change matters

Angela K. Evans

September 26, 2019 |

Boulder Weekly |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Boulder, Colorado

The Media and Climate Change Observatory at the University of Colorado - Boulder has been tracking media coverage of climate change in an effort to improve and provide analysis of it. As awareness of the climate crisis grows around the world, the need to shift away from alarmist information and toward actionable, applicable information also increases. While scientific reports are necessary, delivering information through mediums like comedy or performance art has proven to reach a wider audience.

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Finland is winning the war on fake news. Other nations want the blueprint

Eliza Mackintosh

May 18, 2019 |

CNN |

Multi-Media |

1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Finland, Helsinki

Teaching students to fact check encourages resilience and builds resistance to the post-truth phenomenon. In Finland, a school curriculum implemented at the national level equips elementary and high school students with a digital literacy toolkit geared toward recognizing disinformation online. In addition to specific exercises spotting fake news on social media platforms, a critical thinking curriculum is built into all subjects. Finland's success in fostering a social resilience against disinformation also draws on lessons from the country's oftentimes fraught history with its eastern neighbor.

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'Calling bullshit': the college class on how not to be duped by the news

James McWilliams

April 17, 2019 |

The Guardian |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Washington

At the University of Washington, "Calling Bullshit: Data Reasoning in a Digital World" goes beyond teaching students how to spot "fake news" to show students how to detect misinformation in the reputable places, such as scientific journal articles and lectures, they might not expect to find it.

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Students In Ukraine Learn How To Spot Fake Stories, Propaganda And Hate Speech

Sasha Ingber

March 22, 2019 |

NPR |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: Ukraine, Mariupol

In Ukraine, IREX has developed its Listen to Discern program, which trains students how to separate fact from fiction and overall media literacy. Through methods like reverse image searching and photo forensics, teachers have integrated media literacy into all aspects of the classroom. Research found that students who completed the training were better able to root out false information, hate speech, and propaganda.

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Anti-vaxx propaganda has gone viral on Facebook. Pinterest has a cure

Julia Carrie Wong

February 21, 2019 |

The Guardian |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, California

Correcting "data voids," which provide the space for conspiracies to flourish online, requires online platforms to take active measures against misinformation. In the face of digital marketing incentive structures and biases in search algorithms, scientific journals can’t produce enough content to dispel assumptions of false equivalency between science and propaganda, creating a data gap. Pinterest is currently one of the few companies trying to correct this imbalance between settled science and misinformation campaigns characteristic of many online social media platforms.

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The Spread of Fake News Has Had Deadly Consequences in Mexico. Meet the People Trying to Stop It.

Mark Oprea

February 15, 2019 |

Pacific Standard |

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Response Location: Mexico

Independent journalists and upstart news organizations in Mexico have banded together to counter potentially deadly or disruptive fake news with a highly organized fact-checking campaign calling itself Verificado. Besides debunking hundreds of false political rumors in the 2018 elections, the coalition has fact-checked the sort of fake news that has prompted mobs to carry out hundreds of lynchings. One WhatsApp fact-verifying account enabling anyone to submit requests for debunking stories has been used extensively by mostly young readers.

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Can old-fashioned journalism combat fake news?

Eoin O'Carroll

February 07, 2019 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, New York, New York

Human-based fact checking offers a more dynamic and thorough way to determine the credibility of news outlets than the use of machine learning software. Although humans are still prone to implicit biases, NewsGuard’s model of employing a team of human fact-checkers to rate news websites pushes back against the tendency of algorithms to disseminate false or misleading content. A user-installed plug-in offers details about the credibility and transparency of over 2,000 websites.

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NewsGuard's 'real news' seal of approval helps spark change in fake news era

Kenneth Li

February 01, 2019 |

Reuters |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States

Credibility ratings of news websites by the startup NewsGuard have prompted more than 500 news organizations to upgrade their standards or improve their transparency. Human reviewers, instead of automated systems, grade news sites on nine journalistic criteria, such as whether the sites repeatedly publish fake news and whether they correct errors. Ratings, built into web browsers, warn users when sites have bad reputations for truthfulness and responsibility. Many publishers have sought better ratings by changing their practices.

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