by jpitney | Feb 4, 2023 | House of Representatives, Misinformation
Graph Massara at AP: “[As] the new Republican House majority takes control, confusion over a joke Raskin made about House rules governing headgear fueled a false rumor on social media. “Kevin McCarthy has insisted Jamie Raskin remove the headscarf...
by jpitney | Mar 1, 2022 | Journalism, Journalists, Misinformation, Ukraine
Factcheck.org: Quick Take “Bernie Gores” was not killed in Afghanistan in August, and he wasn’t the “first American casualty of the Ukraine crisis.” He doesn’t exist. But Facebook users were faked out by fabricated tweets that purport to show CNN announcing the death...
by jpitney | Jan 14, 2022 | Civic Education, Misinformation
Mark Walsh at Education Week: Students asserting the right to an adequate civics education have lost their appeal of a federal court ruling that dismissed their suit accusing the state of Rhode Island of failing to prepare them for the duties of citizenship. Like the...
by jpitney | Dec 6, 2020 | Civility, Misinformation, State Government
Jan Murphy at The Patriot-Ledger: Tired of the partisan bickering that seems to get in the way of governing? You aren’t alone. Apparently, so are two members Pennsylvania House of Representatives, one a Republican and the other a Democrat. Together, Reps. Greg...
by jpitney | Aug 17, 2020 | Mass Media, Misinformation
From NewsGuard’s Misinformation Monitor: Hundreds of sites that claim to be new local news organizations are actually funded by political interests, aiming to reach voters under the false banner of local news. A new analysis from NewsGuard examining four of...
by jpitney | Jan 15, 2020 | Misinformation, Social Media, Uncategorized
Dias, Nicholas; Pennycook, Gordon; Rand, David G. (2020). Emphasizing publishers does not effectively reduce susceptibility to misinformation on social media. The Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review. https://doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-001 Summary: In two...
