Teaching Information Literacy in an Age of Misinformation – Faculty Focus
The first time I encountered a student who “just didn’t believe” the data I was using in my sociology class, it caught me off guard. I don’t recall exactly how …
disinformation
Ex-FBI informant charged with lying about Bidens’ Ukraine biz
By Hannah Rabinowitz, Evan Perez and Marshall Cohen | CNN Special counsel David Weiss charged a former FBI informant with lying about President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden’s …
Takeaways from two Trump case hearings in NY, Georgia
By Jill Colvin and Adriana Gomez Licon | Associated Press NEW YORK — Donald Trump ‘s unprecedented tangle of overlapping trials was on full display Thursday with simultaneous court hearings …
Five false claims Trump made about NATO
By Daniel Dale | CNN For a third straight presidential election campaign, former President Donald Trump is being serially inaccurate about the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) military alliance. Trump …
FCC bans AI-generated voices in robocalls
By Ali Swenson | Associated Press NEW YORK — The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday outlawed robocalls that contain voices generated by artificial intelligence, a decision that sends a clear …
Project Veritas admits claims of Pennsylvania postal election fraud were lies
ERIE, Pa. — The conservative group Project Veritas and its former leader are taking the unusual step of publicly acknowledging that claims of ballot mishandling at a Pennsylvania post office …
Smartmatic case over Fox 2020 election lies can continue
By Marshall Cohen | CNN The voting technology company Smartmatic can move forward with its defamation lawsuit against Fox Corporation, a New York judge ruled Wednesday, dealing a blow to the parent …
A US-Sanctioned Oligarch Ran Pro-Kremlin Ads on Facebook—Again
“Malicious actors like this are persistent, and as we’ve said before, we’ve previously detected efforts to use other Pages and accounts in an attempt to amplify content related to him,” …
Judges express skepticism over Trump’s immunity claims
By Eric Tucker, Alanna Durkin Richer and Lindsay Whitehurst | Associated Press WASHINGTON — With Donald Trump present for the first time in months, federal appeals court judges in Washington …
Trial scrutinizes lavish spending by ‘king of the NRA’
By Michael R. Sisak | Associated Press NEW YORK — The longtime head of National Rifle Association operated as the “King of the NRA,” spending lavishly on himself, punishing dissent …