How a journalism class is teaching middle schoolers to fight fake news
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By Ed Madison, Assistant Professor of Journalism, University of Oregon. Research last year out of Stanford University revealed that students – from middle schoolers to undergraduates – are easily duped by false information they find online. The study goes on to describe this as “dismaying,” “bleak” and a “threat to democracy.” These same students are the…
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