misinformation

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  1/12/2021
  

  Teaching in the Age of Disinformation

  Despite many professors' confidence in their ability to foster discussion of controversial subjects, studies suggest avoidance is a much more common approach. Historian of political rhetoric Jennifer Mercieca works to make students more direct and purposeful consumers of news. 

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• SOURCE: TIME
  10/6/2020
  

  How Abraham Lincoln Confronted—and Helped Spread—Political Misinformation

  by Elizabeth Mitchell

  Today's media makes it easier to identify stories with reporters who have a track record for credibility (or lack thereof), and harder for political partisans to plant misinformation, though as even Honest Abe's track record shows, politicians will use disinformation to their advantage as much as they can. 

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  8/27/2020
  

  Lara Trump Seems To Have Gotten Her Abraham Lincoln Quote From A Meme — And It’s Wrong

  Lincoln may have once shared the sentiment, just not the actual words.

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• SOURCE: factcheck.org
  3/12/2020
  

  Viral Social Media Posts Offer False Coronavirus Tips

  Posts are circulating false and misleading tips on social media — in some cases wrongly attributed to Stanford University — about how people can monitor and avoid the coronavirus.