Be MediaWise Lesson 6: How social media algorithms create echo chambers This lesson will teach students about algorithms, confirmation bias and how to avoid getting stuck in an echo chamber. Standards ...

Objectives. Students will be able to: evaluate the credibility of climate change claims on social media. analyze search engine results to choose the best sources to verify or debunk them.

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Doc Searls is a friend of mine. I'm quite proud of that. Doc edits Linux Journal, so on my beat he's a player, and you want sources to know you, to trust you. But he's not known for that, nor for ...

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He said "sources" within the Pima County Sheriff's department had confirmed Giffords' death, said Garcia. With 10 minutes to spare, Newscast producer Diane Waugh began scrambling to get the story ...

Margaret Sullivan: A quick lesson on anonymous source usage There is far more checking, corroborating, debating, arguing, vetting than any viewer could possibly know. Margaret Sullivan | The ...

A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. Credibility doesn’t exist on a one-way street. For individuals and ...