by Sam Wineburg and Nadav Ziv On TikTok you’re liable to find restaurant recommendations, lip-syncing snippets and false claims stating that COVID-19 vaccines contain aborted fetal tissue and that crisis […]
Tag: misinformation
In Ukraine, using an anti-Trump playbook to go after Putin
by Mark Z. Barabak Over the last two decades, Mike Madrid has battled Democrats, Republicans, Donald Trump and a pesky family of squirrels that assumed residence in the eave of […]
Think again about disinformation board
How on earth does one spark controversy from that blandest of government creations, the internal working group? One way is to give it a scary, Orwellian name like the Disinformation […]
We need information literacy classes for students
by Victor Shi Fifty years ago, the national networks CBS, ABC and NBC dominated television screens in America and were the primary way voters obtained information: Each network, along with […]
A war fought with tanks and bombs and Russian lies
As the saying goes, when someone shows you who they are, believe them. And Russia has shown itself, on numerous occasions now, to be a habitual liar. It started before […]
Fake link between Super Bowl and human trafficking
One of the more entrenched Super Bowl traditions is the reminder that the annual NFL championship game is linked to a spike in human trafficking. The statement is solemnly repeated […]
Bills would codify myth, nullify local LGBTQ protections
Our weekly “The Good, the Bad and the Stupid” roundups are good for giving you a glimpse of the bills our state Legislature is considering and that you should keep […]
Notes from COVID quarantine
I got COVID. It started with symptoms late last week — congestion mostly — and then a positive test that Friday. At the worst of it, I felt like I […]
Jan. 23 letters to the editor
Thank you to MLK Jr. Day participants On behalf of the Community Coalition for Social Justice, it is my pleasure to thank those who contributed to the success of the […]
Sec. Warner spreading conspiracies
It’s shameful that West Virginia’s top election official is repeating debunked conspiracy theories and circulating misinformation. We will address the misinformation in Secretary of State Mac Warner’s recent essay, which […]
