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MediaWise’s Teen Fact-Checking Network expands across Europe
Misinformation spreads online faster than ever these days — and it knows no borders. That’s why MediaWise’s Teen Fact-Checking Network, the Poynter Institute’s media literacy initiative, continues its global expansion. […]
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Fact-checking has become a familiar tool for political reporters to hold office-holders and candidates accountable. But critics ask if fact-checkers sometimes miss the forest for the trees, and if the practice often struggles with false equivalency the way conventional political coverage does.