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National News Literacy Campaign Launches to Fight Misinformation and Empower the Public

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Thursday, September 15, 2022
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PACIFICA, Calif., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This morning, the Trust Project, a global consortium of news organizations responding to the crisis of trust and misinformation through the 8 Trust Indicators®, the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) and the University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public (CIP) and Accelerating Social Transformation (AST) leadership program jointly announced a powerful new national news literacy campaign supported by Microsoft. The nonpartisan campaign leverages the Trust Project's 8 Trust Indicators® to strengthen democracy by empowering the public to easily assess the trustworthiness of news.

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  • The nonpartisan campaign leverages the Trust Project's 8 Trust Indicatorsto strengthen democracy by empowering the public to easily assess the trustworthiness of news.
  • "Thanks to Microsoft and our wonderful partners at the University of Washington and RTDNA, millions of Americans will learn about our Trust Indicators.
  • Our goal is to build the public's capacity to resistmisinformation and strengthen informed public participation in civic life."
  • The Trust Indicators are based in robust user-centered design research and respond to public needs and wants.

New Canadian 'CTRL-F' program significantly boosts students' ability to spot misinformation, study finds

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Tuesday, December 7, 2021
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"When it comes to understanding the information that reaches us online, the stakes are high," says CIVIX president Taylor Gunn.

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  • "When it comes to understanding the information that reaches us online, the stakes are high," says CIVIX president Taylor Gunn.
  • False and misleading information is everywhere, and people lack the skills and motivation to determine what to trust.
  • The study was conducted to measure the impact of CIVIX's CTRL-F program , a verification skills curriculum born of a need for effective, contemporary tools for teaching digital literacy.
  • Participating teachers agreed to teach the full seven-hour CTRL-F program, and to attend a two-hour virtual training session before beginning instruction.