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Written by: Madison Dapcevich
Aug. 16, 2022
Wooly rhino? Unicorn? Narwhal? Oh, my.
Written by: Madison Dapcevich
Aug. 15, 2022
Diane Prorak is teaching incoming students to identify and refute false information online.
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
Aug. 8, 2022
Before alarm clocks became common, someone had to wake up workers in industrialized England.
Written by: Jordan Liles
July 28, 2022
Never click links in spammy-looking text messages that claim to come from financial institutions ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
July 27, 2022
If a potential buyer asks a car seller to visit a specific and unfamiliar website in order to ob ...
Written by: Madison Dapcevich
July 27, 2022
Just because we want something to be true doesn’t make it so.
Written by: Madison Dapcevich
July 25, 2022
Bots are used for a variety of reasons online, from boosting follower counts to interfering in p ...
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
July 21, 2022
There is a lot of scrambled information out there.
Written by: Jordan Liles
July 19, 2022
Also called "native advertising," it can be as innocent as a restaurant ad on your newsfeed, or ...
Written by: Madison Dapcevich
June 14, 2022
Logical fallacies are behind many of the harmful misunderstandings, rumors, and conspiracy theor ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
June 10, 2022
There's much more to historical research than old, dusty books.
Written by: Bethania Palma
June 10, 2022
This logical fallacy is sometimes referred to as the fallacy of distraction.
Written by: Madison Dapcevich
May 31, 2022
Logical fallacies are behind many of the harmful misunderstandings, rumors, and conspiracy theor ...
Written by: Dan Evon
May 18, 2022
This is a white supremacist conspiracy theory that posits "global elites" are causing an "invasi ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
May 6, 2022
An online ad featured a particularly eerie looking photo of a hotel in an apocalyptic setting. W ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
April 29, 2022
The video was posted by an urban explorer known as Triangle of Mass.
Written by: Dan Evon
April 15, 2022
Bird poop? Shaking hands with thin air? Captions can falsely frame shared content in politically ...
Written by: Madison Dapcevich
April 11, 2022
The day of recognition started quite humbly more than a half century ago.
Written by: David Emery
April 4, 2022
"Gamergate" is considered by many to have been a watershed event in the ascendancy of extremist ...
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
March 28, 2022
For International Fact-Checking Day, we look at common techniques used to identify dubious stori ...
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