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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.
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.
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.
Mike Webb VP of News Literacy Project, says students are susceptible to both mis and disinformation like adults, particularly when it comes to social media and things like COVID-19.
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.
Fake news websites deliberately publish hoaxes, propaganda, and disinformation to drive web traffic inflamed by social media. [8] [9] [10] These sites are distinguished from news satire as fake news articles are usually fabricated to deliberately mislead readers, either for profit or more ambiguous reasons, such as disinformation campaigns.
When it comes to news literacy, schools often emphasize fact-checking and hoax-spotting. But as I argue in my book on news literacy, schools must go deeper with how they teach the subject if they ...
One development that took years was the 2017 community decision to declare a particular news source, Daily Mail, as generally unreliable as a citation for verifying claims. [6] [17] Through strict guidelines on verifiability, Wikipedia has been combating misinformation.