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Weekly News Digest
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The Urgency of Critical Media Literacy
Nolan Higdon writes the following in “The War on Fake News Has Backfired” for Salon:Brian Stelter, CNN’s chief media analyst, recently tweeted that ‘fact-check’ had become a dirty word. Stelter’s assessment followed Meta’s announcement that it would scrap its fact-checking processes—once central to the post-2016 response to the proliferation of so-called fake news. Now, with Donald Trump preparing for a second term, many former critics of fake news have curiously dropped their concerns over disinformation and aligned with him. This shift exposes Big Tech and legacy media’s anti-fake-news campaigns as, at best, PR fluff, and at worst, efforts to outright silence dissent. For more information, read the article.
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Brandi Scardilli
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