Information Literacy

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Fox News aired more than 400 weekday segments mentioning trans athletes over just four months

A basic literacy of the media environment would include the understanding that the frequency of "hearing about" something provide no indication of it's importance or frequency in reality

Fox News aired more than 400 weekday segments mentioning trans athletes over just four months

The Threat of Conspiracy Theories in the Battle for the Cognitive Domain — A Consideration of the Status of Conspiracy Theories in Japan Based on Attempts at Regime Destruction Overseas — | List of Articles | International Information Network Analysis | SPF

A Theory of Information Warfare, Preparing for 2020

Written in July of 1997, this Air Force paper was an exceptionally accurate prediction of the domestic information war in the United States of 2025

A Theory of Information Warfare, Preparing for 2020

Adversarial Narratives: A New Model for Disinformation - Report from Global Disinformation Index

Disrupting the business model of disinformation

Adversarial Narratives: A New Model for Disinformation - Report from Global Disinformation Index

Countering disinformation effectively - An Evidence Based Policy Guide

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Countering disinformation effectively - An Evidence Based Policy Guide

Metabolic Profiling Research - Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine

Arthur Robinson's "Oregon Institute" originated in climate change denial in the late 1990s - could student's recognize that from looking at its website?

Metabolic Profiling Research - Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine

MisinfoDay Resource Library

The Grievance Studies Project and the Curruption of Scholaship

We engaged in a one-year immersive exploration to attempt to understand certain academic fields as “outsiders within” and test their scholarship at its highest levels.

The Grievance Studies Project and the Curruption of Scholaship

Reply to Cheong and Jones: The role of science in responding to collective behavioral threats | PNAS

Reply to Cheong and Jones: The role of science in responding to collective behavioral threats

Reply to Cheong and Jones: The role of science in responding to collective behavioral threats | PNAS

Stewardship of global collective behavior | Proceedings of the National Academy of Science

The digital revolution and social media are changing the collective behavior of human beings faster than we can understand them - that is the conclusion of this report from the National Academy of Science that argues the study of this phenomenon be actively studied as a "crisis discipline"

Stewardship of global collective behavior | Proceedings of the National Academy of Science

Suspected AI – Academ-AI

Teachers use AI to create content to teach, while telling students not to use AI to create content to prove their learning, while academics use AI to create content in peer reviewed academic journals. This is a list of academic journal articles identified as created with AI

Suspected AI – Academ-AI

Home - CO2 Coalition

Climate Change deniers site is worthwhile for student testing of lateral reading skills

Home - CO2 Coalition

John Bohannon

Any serious exploration of media literacy should include an encounter with people like John Bohannon, a journalist who tests the scientific, peer-review, academic publishing industry, uncovering their systemic flaws in inaccuracies. If you heard scientific proof that chocolate helps you lose weight - he made it up and it was still published in peer-reviewed scientific journals

John Bohannon

Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act

While US social media companies abandon efforts to stop mis- and disinformation through fact checking, Singapore is enforcing laws countering false statements of fact

Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act

Children negotiating meanings in kidfluencers’ channels

Elementary school teachers looking for research supporting their impressions students are overexposed will find it here

Children negotiating meanings in kidfluencers’ channels

Meet The Media Monsters

Fun approach for 4th and 5th graders

Meet The Media Monsters

Psychological defence agency

Teachers and students teach and talk about media literacy perhaps without realizing how vital it is to national security. Sweden's Psychological Defense Agency might help them realize how little they know

Psychological defence agency

Countering Disinformation Effectively: An Evidence-Based Policy Guide

This report offers a high-level, evidence-informed guide to some of the major proposals for how democratic governments, platforms, and others can counter disinformation. It distills core insights from empirical research and real-world data on ten diverse kinds of policy interventions, including fact-checking, foreign sanctions, algorithmic adjustments, and counter-messaging campaigns.

Countering Disinformation Effectively: An Evidence-Based Policy Guide

Structured expert elicitation on disinformation, misinformation, and malign influence: Barriers, strategies, and opportunities | HKS Misinformation Review

Inoculation Science - Video Resources - Truth Labs for Education

Engaging graphics, tight scripts and concise messages important for students to consider when browsing and researching

Inoculation Science - Video Resources - Truth Labs for Education

Home - The Trust Project

These 8 "Trust Indicators" can be used by teachers and students to assess the value of information posted on sites by using these indicators as a "Lens" in lateral reading activities

Home - The Trust Project

General Accounting Office Report - Opportunities and Threats to DOD’s National Security Mission

60 page summary of research, useful for teachers to quickly scan for language - how is the information environment affect national security? How do Department of Defense officials think, talk and act about information literact?

General Accounting Office Report - Opportunities and Threats to DOD’s National Security Mission

A global initiative to counter misleading and deceptive online discourse

Logically Facts helps counter misleading and deceptive online discourse about public health, public safety, election integrity, and national security by enabling platforms to operate in markets safely, responsibly, and compliantly.

A global initiative to counter misleading and deceptive online discourse

Trust in Isolation: the Real Threat of Generative AI - The Global Disinformation Index

Taking humans out of the process and hiding sources behind text generation makes AI a greater threat in this stage of the information revolution

Trust in Isolation: the Real Threat of Generative AI - The Global Disinformation Index

Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review

Publishing high quality interdisciplinary research that examines misinformation from different perspectives, from its prevalence and impact to the effectiveness of possible interventions.

Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review

Harvard Business School Investigation Report Recommended Firing Francesca Gino | News | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard Scholar Who Studies Honesty Is Accused of Fabricating Findings (Published 2023)

Main | Many Co-Authors

Many Co-Authors is an online platform designed to collect and share information on the provenance and availability of the data for all articles co-authored by Francesca Gino. Harvard Business School professor who had been found to fake data

Main | Many Co-Authors

Safeguarding our Future - Collection of Genomic Information by China

THis is a report from the Director of National Intelligence regarding the massive collection of DNA sequences of millions of American s

Safeguarding our Future - Collection of Genomic Information by China

Fighting Disinformation Online | RAND

This is a set of resources that can help users combat the challenge of disinformation, gain greater awareness of the media ecosystem, and become more-savvy information media consumers

Fighting Disinformation Online | RAND