From News Literacy Project:
The 2024 election season will be among the most closely followed in American history, and as in past years, it also will attract a flood of mis- and disinformation. A new development this year is the rise of artificial intelligence technologies, which can create sophisticated fabrications and distortions that challenge our ability to identify what’s real and what’s not like never before.
The News Literacy Project is working to ensure that you know how to discern fact from fiction and can make well-informed voting decisions when you go to the polls.
We aim to accomplish that through our election misinformation awareness campaign, which will help you learn how to spot false information and hone your skills for identifying and seeking out credible sources and fact-based information.
Resources:
RumorGuard (https://www.rumorguard.org/)
This site includes both an updated fact-checker and information about ways to guard against misinformation. It discusses 5 Factors to look for when evaluating information: authenticity, sourcing, evidence, context, and reasoning behind the information. For each factor, there are lessons and helpful hints included to help you learn more.
2024 Presidential Election Misinformation (https://flipboard.com/@newslitproject/2024-presidential-election-misinformation-43m0ge27z)
This site collects the most recent stories and fact-checking sites from various media resources. It also includes interesting stories related to the election, such as "AI Election Risks" and "#FACTCHALLENGE", a media literacy course for Spanish speakers on WhatsApp sponsored by Factchequeado, a popular spanish-language fact-checking site.
“STIR (Stop, Think, Investigate, React) it up!” is our (Political Advertising Literacy) research project that aims to arm people with basic information about how political advertising is regulated and who typically funds and create the ads. We hope you learn something new from the brief video and stop and think before you accept, like, or share a political ad."
Created through a collaboration of The University of Tennessee and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, the Political Advertising Literacy Research Group uses their resources to "investigate how much U.S. voters know about political advertising, called political advertising literacy (PAL), and improve their knowledge to effectively cope with misleading political advertising."
For more information about the group and to access their resources, see https://politicaladvertisingliteracy.illinois.edu/
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