“For a society to have ready access to high-quality news is essential not just for the moment, but for the long-term sustainability of democracy.”

From the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to the Syrian civil war, we've learned that a real video can be just as misleading as a fake one.

The research examined two main questions:
1. Do uncivil comments on news stories make people perceive other site users and the news site more negatively?
2. Do people make this evaluation about the news site based on the first few comments they see or based on the predominant tone of all the visible comments in the stream?

Heated debates focus on new and emerging technologies in the lives of children, young people, families and schools. New research brings together the perspectives of tech industry insiders and those of young people, parents, and educators across Europe, to explore the future of tech and provide practical recommendations.

A conversation with Jonathan Gray and Liliana Bounegru, editors of the Data Journalism Handbook 2: Towards a Critical Data Practice.

Are they blinded by their political passions? Or are they just intellectually lazy? An opinion piece by psychologists Dr. Gordon Pennycook and Dr. David Rand.

According to Serbian fact-checking portal Raskrikavanje, more than 700 false or unverified news stories were published on the front pages of three Serbian tabloids (Informer, Alo and Srpski Telegraf) in 2018.
These false or unfounded news articles were mainly pushing narratives on President Putin’s strong support to Serbia and the war rhetoric and inflammatory reporting on Kosovo.

Parenting for a Digital Future releases the fourth in its series of reports from its nationally representative survey of UK parents of children aged 0-17. This report highlights why digital inequalities matter in our increasingly digitalized and connected world. In this post, Sonia Livingstone and Dongmiao Zhang discuss the major findings from the study, and outline why socio-economic status and parental education are extremely important in shaping children’s digital lives and why.

The internet has always been awash with misinformation and hate, but never has it felt so inescapable and overwhelming as it did this year. From Facebook’s role in fanning the flames of ethnic cleansing in Myanmar to the rise of QAnon to the so-called migrant caravan to the influence campaign conducted by the Kremlin’s Internet Research Agency, 2018 was a rough year to be online, regardless of the strength of your media literacy skills.

11 studies we have found valuable for insights on how children conceptualise privacy, their (often frustrated and resigned) interactions with digital environments, their understandings of data, and the role of parents in children’s privacy online.

As governments, institutions, civil society and industry seek to tackle the challenges posed by misinformation, improving the public’s media literacy and/or digital literacy is often cited as a potential solution.
Gianfranco Polizzi, a PhD researcher at the LSE, discusses how critical digital literacy relates to trust, and how policy conversations should be redirected.

“We have seen this rapid rise in deep learning technology and the question is: Is that going to keep going, or is it plateauing? What’s going to happen next?”

A large-scale study by the Stanford Graduate School of Education found that young people at every stage from middle school to college were consistently unable to differentiate news from advertising, or false information from the truth, a state of affairs the researchers described as “bleak.”

Тhe government has banned the term “fake news” after urging ministers to use “misinformation” or "disinformation" instead.

Algorithms are a black box. We can see them at work in the world. We know they’re shaping outcomes all around us. But most of us have no idea what they are — or how we’re being influenced by them.

Teachers are looking for ways to integrate media literacy into their classroom – especially since it became obvious that students cannot distinguish between real or fake news. Here are six ways to help you teach your students to be media literate.

Misinformation and distrust are the characteristic of our time. They make the question of how to approach and promote critical digital literacy particularly important. Gianfranco Polizzi suggests ten texts that offer a framework for thinking about how to do it.

The former editor-in-chief of the Guardian looks back on two decades that changed journalism for ever.

Hygiene checks of online info can be as simple & automatic as hand washing & seatbelt wearing. What follows are some of the techniques we teach our students as they learn to navigate the web.

“Fake news” no longer communicates what journalists often think it does.

In the era of information wars, Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee is working to keep the internet honest.

There are different ways that fake news sites fake us out. In GIJN’s latest tutorial, Olga Yurkova, co-founder of Ukrainian fact-checking project StopFake, runs through six main techniques used and offers some simple tools to verify what is true — and what isn’t.

"Around three weeks into our summer program, one of the high school interns asked: “Is the Chicago Tribune a reliable source?”
While the answer was obvious to us, the intern’s comment illustrated a larger, more important point: students don’t know who to trust anymore (including a 27-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize)."

Free media are not “the enemy of the people” – and that is precisely why they are under attack from politicians all over the world. Free media can empower people – that Is why strongmen attack them.

While bots are one of the major trends in digital communication, many users don’t know much about what they are — or their power to influence public opinion through spreading disinformation and propaganda.

Plays can be bought for pennies and delivered in bulk, inflating videos’
popularity and making the social media giant vulnerable to manipulation.

We talk to five different experts on ways you can identify and fight disinformation.

Here's how to make sure your teachers can help students become responsible digital citizens.

One key feature of disinforming news stories is that they are most often published without quoting any sources, alongside having a biased or subjective tone. In the Western Balkans, the largest number of news articles without sources has been seen in Serbia, while news pieces quoting ‘unnamed sources’ were most common in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. These are some of the findings of a one month regional monitoring project run by the Belgrade-based civic association CRTA.

The dominant position of Russian-language media has left Moldova the most vulnerable country in Eastern Europe to Kremlin propaganda, a new study claims.