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Be a Media Mentor

The News Literacy Project, a nonpartisan national education nonprofit, provides programs and resources for educators and the public to teach, learn and share the abilities needed to be smart, active consumers of news and information and equal and engaged participants in a democracy. (Read our brochure)

ALA

From ALA, a webinar series to help library workers integrate media literacy into everyday interactions and programs. Download the guide. ​​
Created by Kathy Pearce, Oyster River High School, Durham, NH

UNESCO

Journalism, 'Fake News' and Disinformation: A Handbook for Journalism Education and Training

Covering COVID to the Capitol Insurrection, These Podcasts Help Kids Discern Fact from Fiction ~ School Library Journal

PEN AMERICA


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​If you would like to catch up on past live workshops and panels that Pen America has presented to the public, view the recordings on their project page, Knowing the News.


How to Talk to Friends and Family Who Share Misinformation – PEN America


PEN America’s Guide on COVID-19 and Disinformation


PEN America Reports:
Faking News: Fraudulent News and the Fight for Truth
Truth on the Ballot: Fraudulent News, the Midterm Elections, and Prospects for 2020


Fact-checking resources:
Politifact.com by the Poynter Institute or Washington Post’s Factchecker both fact-check political content.
RevEye Reverse Image Search is a Chrome extension to perform an inverse image search.
FactCheck.org is a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Centerand is non-partisan and monitors for political accuracy.
All Sides offers perspectives on topical news stories from the left, center, and from the right, plus a ‘media bias rating.’
Snopes.com has been around since 1994 and fact-checks internet content.
Duke Reporters’ Lab is a database of both national and global fact-checking resources. 
NewsGuard Coronavirus Misinformation Tracker for COVID-19-specific tracking.
A short news article from Buzzfeed on the various hoaxes and misleading content surrounding the protests.
News Literacy Project’s How News Literate Are You? quiz
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"A photograph is usually looked at-seldom looked into." ~Ansel Adams
  • FAKE NEWS: This term has become a politically charged term without clear definition. It's best to avoid using it, instead choosing a more definitive and recognized term from the list below.
  • DISINFORMATION: content that is intentionally false and designed to cause harm. It is motivated by three factors: to make money; to have political influence; or to cause trouble.
  • MISINFORMATION: false content being shared by someone who doesn’t realize that it is false or misleading. Often a piece of disinformation is picked up by someone who doesn’t realize it’s false, and shares it with their networks, believing that they are helping.
  • MALINFORMATION: genuine information that is shared with an intent to cause harm. An example of this is when Russian agents hacked into emails from the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign and leaked certain details to the public to damage reputations.
  • MISLEADING CONTENT: Reframing stories in headlines, using fragments of quotes to support a wider point, citing statistics in a way that aligns with a position or deciding not to cover something because it undermines an argument are all recognized techniques. It's hard to define exactly because it’s about context and nuance. How much of a quote is omitted? To what extent have statistics been massaged? Has the way a photo was cropped significantly changed the meaning of the image?
Image and definitions from Understanding Information disorder - First Draft (firstdraftnews.org).
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