The News Literacy Project (NLP), a nonpartisan education nonprofit, is building a national movement to advance the practice of news literacy throughout American society, creating better informed, more engaged and more empowered individuals — and ultimately a stronger democracy.
NLP created RumorGuard to help us all learn how to recognize misinformation and stop it in its tracks. Each fact-checked viral rumor contains concrete tips to help you build your news literacy foundation and confidently evaluate claims you see online.
Misinformation and the lack of news literacy have created an existential threat to our democracy. As a result, there is an urgent need for news literacy for people of all ages.
A free and independent press and the ability to determine whether information is credible are necessary for the future of a healthy democracy. News literacy teaches about the importance of a free press in our democracy, including how to recognize and demand standards-based journalism, which builds an appreciation for quality journalism. Relying on the standards of fact-based journalism as an aspirational yardstick is the best way to measure the credibility of news and other information.
Misinformation affects everything in our daily lives — from our health care, to our finances, to our personal values. And if we can’t agree on a set of basic facts, then we can’t make well-informed decisions about our lives and our governance.
This is the official California state government website for making sure that you're still registered to vote. It needs your name, birthday, and driver's license and Social Security number.
Technically, it's /either/ your driver's license /or/ your SSN, but if you enter one you'll have to check "I do not have one" box for the other and that might cause erroneous results. Your tax dollars at work.
Pyre is a fast, scalable type checker for large python codebases, designed to help improve code quality and development speed by flagging type errors interactively in your terminal or favorite editor. We follow the typing standards introduced in PEP484 and PEP526.