@peteradams.bsky.social
Head of research & design at the News Literacy Project. newslit.org RumorGuard.org Checkology.org
Seems unnecessary to take a cheap swipe at journalists (most of whom actually have a lot of integrity) in this take about Colbert.
19.07.2025 01:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We disagree. Have a good night.
17.07.2025 03:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Through whose reporting did you learn about all these things you’re outraged about?
17.07.2025 03:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Don’t agree that the press has done that.
17.07.2025 03:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0What would it say if the press ignored these stories — which speak to the approach being taken by immigration authorities and raise questions about racial profiling.
17.07.2025 02:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
"My goal was to never tell students what they should think about a given social problem or controversial issue — but rather to make sure they were informed & thinking in careful, logical & critical ways about it."
NLP's @peteradams.bsky.social provides many #NewsLiteracy lessons in this profile.
Are you saying the details weren’t included in the coverage?
05.07.2025 17:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The bill was covered *extensively*
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collage of 12 Facebook ads for fake musical instrument retailers
What do these twelve Facebook ads for massive discounts on guitars and other music gear from major online retailers have in common? They're all scams.
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“It’s so essential as a foundational piece for everyone to be able to distinguish between different kinds of information, especially in an information environment where everything is just referred to & presented to us as content.” - @peteradams.bsky.social
🎙 Peter & Kim Bowman talk #NewsLiteracy
"Meta’s enforcement of its manipulated media policy is inconsistent. It must prioritize investing in technology to identify and label manipulated audio and video at scale in order that users are properly informed."
www.oversightboard.com/news/identif...
“This is something students have a right to; it’s key to their civic empowerment.” - @peteradams.bsky.social
A podcast for the weekend: On Unpacking Education, NLP's Kim Bowman & Peter Adams discuss our "News Literacy in America" report & why students want #MediaLiteracy
go.newslit.org/UnpackEdNLP
1/ The phrase “ #Doyourownresearch” has become one of the most polarizing phrases in public health, exposing deep divides in how people approach health info and trust experts. YLE contributor @kmpanthagani.bsky.social breaks it down in her most recent health (mis)communication post 🧵
19.06.2025 18:35 — 👍 78 🔁 26 💬 10 📌 4
Artificial intelligence is working overtime to produce a plethora of fake images from the Israel-Iran conflict.
www.aap.com.au/factcheck/so...
A Threads post reads, “BREAKING: Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift Join ‘No Kings Day’ Rally, Igniting Passionate Support for Equality Movement usamidia.com/trav..” and features an image that appears to show the two celebrities at a protest. The News Literacy Project has added a label that says “AI IMAGE.”
❌ NO: This is not a legit photo of #TaylorSwift & #TravisKelce at a “No Kings” protest. It's AI-generated.
Fabricating a celeb endorsement (especially one with Swift) is a widely used tactic to spread misinfo & often involves doctored photos, fake quotes, & AI fakes.
🔗 go.newslit.org/SwiftKelceAI
"There’s more footage of conflict than there’s ever been, but a lot of it is fake."
👇🏾 An important read & a reminder to be discerning about what you share online - especially during breaking news events.
#NewsLiteracy
h/t @charliemeyerson.com for the link in his newsletter, Chicago Public Square.
www.chicagopublicsquare.com/2025/06/a-st...
Stellar piece by @kmpanthagani.bsky.social exploring why non-experts "do their own research" & the epistemic pitfalls that await them.
An astute observation: assuming "real" truth always opposes the consensus *creates* bias & enables misinfo.
yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/how-should...
“Viral #misinformation expresses patterns over time, and we can learn how to recognize those patterns and inoculate ourselves to a whole swath of viral rumors.” - NLP’s @peteradams.bsky.social
#NewsLiteracy
Some thoughts on perennial pitfalls in news coverage of social media manipulation that frequently result in reporting on fake accounts/bots/etc being far less accurate and informative than it ought to be...
www.conspirator0.com/p/journalism...
"It’s precisely because AI is prone to errors that newsrooms must maintain the 'fundamental standards & values that have long guided their work,'" says NLP's @peteradams.bsky.social in this @unbonfromage.bsky.social @cnn.com piece
#AI
#EdTech
What #NewsLiteracy skill does NLP's @peteradams.bsky.social use most often?
👀 "I guess fundamentally … trying to be mindful when I’m on social media but really paying attention to my emotions, observing the ways my personal biases are targeted & triggered & being aware of my assumptions."
"I also think it’s important to consciously set aside time to seek out quality, standards-based news … not just let news find you through the algorithms that determine your social media feeds."
Just 1 piece of #NewsLiteracy advice from @peteradams.bsky.social in our NLPeople profile.
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1/ @peteradams.bsky.social has been with NLP since our 1st birthday in 2009 when he oversaw our classroom program in Chicago & managed local journalist volunteers.
Over 16 years, he's been integral to NLP's growth - & the work has never gotten stale for him. Get to know Peter ⤵️
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🤔 What is the 1st thing you should do upon seeing a claim you're not sure about?
"Do a web search for the claim & hold off liking or sharing it on social media." - NLP's @peteradams.bsky.social says in this @critikid.bsky.social piece
Adams also discusses judging a site's reliability, AI & more!
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Spain's government approved a bill imposing massive fines on companies that use content generated by AI without properly labelling it as such, in a bid to curb the use of so-called "deepfakes"
www.reuters.com/technology/a...
Perhaps, though I think overt, egregious examples of this are much less common than people think — mostly because of the selection bias involved in what gets screenshotted/shared on social media. But yes, the pressure to write engaging headlines that can compete for attention is real.
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Last Friday afternoon, I got my first message from Ryan Daniels, public affairs manager of strategic response at Meta. When I declined his invitation to talk by phone, he wrote back again: “I was wondering if the Washington Post was going to write a review about a book that’s coming out this upcoming week on Meta. Do you have a couple minutes to chat?” So, I called. Daniels said, “We don’t have the book,” but the company had prepared “preliminary statements” about it. Although he didn’t share those with me, he wrote to me again on Saturday and again on Monday trying to get information about our review plans. (In my 27 years of reviewing and editing newspaper books sections, no company has ever done this with me.)
Yesterday, when I reached out to Daniels for a response from Meta, he wrote back: “Do you plan to write something about it, or are you just curious how we’re responding?” It’s always about controlling the narrative. But apparently, that’s not going so well. This morning, “Careless People” is No. 3 on Amazon. I know this is a long item, the longest I’ve ever written for the Book Club newsletter. But when one of the world’s most powerful media companies tries to snuff out a book — amid other alarming attacks on free speech in America like this — it’s time to pull out all the stops.
WaPo's Ron Charles, in his Book Club newsletter, on Meta's repeated questions about his plans to review Sarah Wynn-Williams's "Careless People":
"In my 27 years of reviewing and editing newspaper books sections, no company has ever done this with me."
