@jakelam2116.bsky.social
Social for the News Literacy Project (https://bsky.app/profile/newslitproject.bsky.social); 🏀 nerd; fan of nuance; opinions are my own. Livin' the PNW life in & around Seattle. https://newslit.org/
Colorful banner for Project for Awesome featuring a smiling educator in a classroom setting. Text encourages voting for the News Literacy Project at projectforawesome.com
📢 Be awesome & vote for NLP!
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🙏🏽 Watch our video & vote for us between NOW-Feb. 18: go.newslit.org/AwesomeNLP
🙂 It's been a busy news week + now the Olympics + the Super Bowl. So, yeah ...
If you didn't get to National #NewsLiteracyWeek, we get it! The good news is our resources aren't going away. Here are a few links:
🏡 newsliteracyweek.org
🌳 go.newslit.org/InfoEcosystem
📚 go.newslit.org/NNLWlibrarians
Here's who the Washington Post just laid off.
04.02.2026 21:10 — 👍 764 🔁 336 💬 33 📌 42
Text-heavy nfographic titled "The Information Ecosystem Depends on News." It features a "News-Driven Ecosystem" diagram with sections like the public, journalism, and raw information, emphasizing interconnected roles. Illustrations of trees and people symbolize growth and influence. The tone is educational, highlighting the significance of journalism as an anchoring tree for an informed society.
1/ 🌳 Use the analogy of an ecosystem to help students understand today’s info landscape with our NEW infographic.
👀 Analyze the poster to learn how:
- the news-driven ecosystem forms an info web
- content about news largely couldn’t exist without standards-based journalism
#NewsLiteracyWeek
So many incredible journalists got laid off today. Heroes, mentors, friends. Just an absolutely devastating day. Starting a thread here with some of their incredible work, and how to follow and support them.
04.02.2026 14:56 — 👍 445 🔁 134 💬 4 📌 10
Text-heavy infographic about confirmation bias and motivated reasoning, with boxes explaining different aspects of the cognitive biases. Boxes include: Confirmation bias is; motivated reasoning is; information habits, political polarization & conspiracy theories; Interesting studies; & “our best defenses.”
⚠️ In today's AI age, confirmation bias & motivated reasoning are dangerous cognitive biases. For instance:
👍🏽 See a video that you agree with? That must be legit.
🤔 See a video that you disagree with? That has to be AI!
🔗 Download the infographic: go.newslit.org/ConfBiasPoster
#NewsLiteracy
📢 We're #hiring! NLP is looking for a Data and Impact Intern to join our team this spring.
📊 This position is ideal for students pursuing a degree in information or data science or professionals beginning their career in a related field.
🔗 Learn more: go.newslit.org/DataIntern
#Internship
📢 NLP is #hiring an IT Consultant!
ℹ️ We're looking for someone with a strong K-12 #EdTech background to assess our practices & provide a 3-year roadmap for IT needs at NLP.
🔗 Learn more / share / apply: go.newslit.org/ITJobNLP
Text-heavy and colorful infographic titled BREAKING NEWS CHECKLIST with 6 tips on "What to do when information is scarce, falsehoods are rampant and the story is still unfolding" 1 Mind the gap: Keep in mind that there’s often a gap between what the public wants to know and the verified information available. Unconfirmed or completely bogus content often rushes in to fill that gap. 2 Beware bad actors: Remember that bad actors often capitalize on breaking news situations to spread falsehoods for easy likes and shares. 3 Do a quick search: This is often your best defense against misinformation. 4 Look for evidence: Claims that make bold assertions but provide no links or other evidence should always be approached with caution. 5 Seek credible sources: Be intentional about looking for credible news and not relying on social media algorithms to bring you updates. 6 Practice patience: Quality journalism and verification take time. Be ready to follow news developments over time.
🚨 In just one week, 2026 has already been full of major breaking news. As a reminder, reporting on & verifying the facts on a developing story take time & bad actors fill news voids with fakes & propaganda.
Here are some basic tips ⤵️
🔗 bit.ly/BreakingNews...
Finland teaches how to recognize and dismiss propaganda and disinformation, including AI slop, as a civic skill in its schools, even with the very youngest students. We need this taught in every classroom across the world!
apnews.com/article/fake...
#Finland #propaganda #AISlop #misinformation
this game is really all i wanted for the holidays
26.12.2025 06:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
⚠️ Our 2025 year in misinformation is AI-focused. As artificial intelligence tools became a routine part of many people’s lives this year, they also further polluted our info landscape by:
🚩 Distorting current events
🚩 Supplying wrong answers as chatbots
🚩 Impersonating audio
Read more ⤵️
🚨 We're hiring! Join NLP in 2026 and help us more seamlessly integrate #NewsLiteracy into school districts nationwide.
#JobSeekers
#EdTech
📢 #Educators: Are you subscribed to The Sift? If not, sign up by Jan. 12 to make the newsletter a part of your new year!
As a teaser, the last issue of 2025 has it all:
- Top stories + discussion Q's
- Daily Do Now slides to teach with
- A RumorGuard rundown of viral falsehoods
➕ much more!
Man, Rockets-Nuggets was phenomenal. Would gladly take this in the 2nd round of the playoffs 🍿
16.12.2025 05:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🍌 Google's Nano Banana Pro is here, making spotting AI images even harder. We're at a point where anything you see online could be AI, which makes fact-checking your feed more essential than ever.
🎞 Our video: youtube.com/shorts/3M-BH...
#NewsLiteracy
#AILiteracy
Parents, families, anyone who interacts with young people: You should subscribe to Scroll Smarter!
Check out this month's issue produced by @susanmini.bsky.social & her brilliant team!
#NewsLiteracy
Reminder that charts & ratings of alleged bias in news are not, themselves, "objective" & should always be questioned. Some of the most popular have deeply flawed methodologies that yield some truly absurd (and harmful) "ratings" that exacerbate rather than diminish misconceptions about journalism.
05.12.2025 15:13 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Does your #SpotifyWrapped contain an AI song? And would you be able to tell if a friend's top song was AI-generated? Yes, these are questions worth asking in 2025.
🎞 Video: youtube.com/shorts/dpdVs...
#AILiteracy
It’s a really good day to support news literacy!
#GivingTuesday
😠 Did a social media post immediately evoke anger?
😁 Did a social media post immediately make you grin in agreement?
💡 Posts that tug at our emotions can cause us to share, like or comment without verifying the facts. Instead:
- Pause
- Take a deep breath
- And do a fact-check
#NewsLiteracy
Teens overwhelmingly used negative words like "biased," "boring," "chaotic," and "bad" to describe the news media and journalists in a new @newslit.org survey.
Those doing the hard and important work of teaching media literacy to high schoolers are unsurprised. www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/bias...
These results are shocking. But luckily, @newslit.org helps educators turn these numbers around. #newsliteracy
06.11.2025 19:42 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Nikola Jokic messes up Domantas Sabonis' hair with the laser assist to Gordon
04.11.2025 03:21 — 👍 353 🔁 70 💬 5 📌 12Great internship opportunity to work with my awesome colleague @susanmini.bsky.social & her team on taking NLP's impactful newsletters to the next level!
#Interns
#EduSky
Sweet merciful lawd Freddie Freeman finally ends it in 6:39 and 18 innings
28.10.2025 06:53 — 👍 1107 🔁 181 💬 34 📌 63OF COURSE IT WAS FREDDIE FREEMAN. WE'RE DONE HERE
28.10.2025 06:51 — 👍 52 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0"Unbelievable stuff from Will Klein!"
28.10.2025 06:47 — 👍 153 🔁 22 💬 1 📌 5This freakin World Series game!!! Also feelin for my EDT watchers - been there, experienced that 😴
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