Max_S
October 31, 2019, 4:21pm
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“Fake news” made the news in 2016 and 2017, and I remember Stanford’s 2016 study of middle school students was often cited in the aftermath of “Pizzagate”. There were calls for media literacy in secondary education, which I believe passed in Florida, Ohio, California, New Jersey, Minnesota, and maybe other states. Have there been any followup studies?
Wineburg, Sam and McGrew, Sarah and Breakstone, Joel and Ortega, Teresa. (2016). Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Civic Online Reasoning. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Civic Online Reasoning | Stanford Digital Repository
~Max
kferr
November 1, 2019, 12:48pm
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Not what you are looking for, but I wanted to point out that fake news has been around for a very long time. A few examples here.
The very first example in your link (and one of the few related to politics) shows:
On Thursday in the Afternoon, William Anderton , Printer , was brought to the Bar, and an Indictment of High-Treason was read against him; for that he did Compose, Print and publish Two Malicious, Scandalous and Traitorous Libels, The first Entitled, Remarks upon the present Confederacy, and late Revolution in England. The second Entitled, A French Conquest neither desirable, nor practicable.
The jury found Anderton guilty and he was executed at Tyburn on Friday, 16 June 1693.
Perhaps the U.S. needs its own version of Tyburn Tree.
