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The News Literacy Project (NLP) is an American nonpartisan national education nonprofit, based in Washington, D.C., that provides resources for educators, students, and the general public to help them learn to identify credible information, recognize misinformation and disinformation, and determine what they can trust, share, and act on.
Fake news websites are those which intentionally, but not necessarily solely, publish hoaxes and disinformation for purposes other than news satire.Some of these sites use homograph spoofing attacks, typosquatting and other deceptive strategies similar to those used in phishing attacks to resemble genuine news outlets.
Alan C. Miller (born March 5, 1954 [1]) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and the founder of the News Literacy Project, [2] a national education nonprofit that works with educators and journalists to offer resources and tools that help middle school and high school students learn to separate fact from fiction.
Roundcheck (https://roundcheck.com.ng/): is a youth-led factchecking organization in Nigeria combating misinformation and disinformation and promoting media literacy. One of their objectives is integrating young people into factchecking to help curb the spread of information disorder.
As National News Literacy Week begins, ABC 10News speaks with the News Literacy Project about the tools they have to help people ensure the news they read, watch, and scroll is credible.
More recently, the mainstream media has come under severe economic threat from online startups. In addition, the rapid spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories via social media is slowly creeping into mainstream media. One solution is for more media staff to be assigned a fact-checking role, as for example The Washington Post.
Not the least of such mischief is the enactment of laws based on faux facts and extreme political posturing.
The Shorenstein Center at Harvard University defines disinformation research as an academic field that studies "the spread and impacts of misinformation, disinformation, and media manipulation," including "how it spreads through online and offline channels, and why people are susceptible to believing bad information, and successful strategies for mitigating its impact". [23]