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.
The Analysis and Response Toolkit for Trust (ARTT) project supports health communicators, educators, and other responders who work to keep local, online communities more informed.
Our main tool, the ARTT Guide, is a Web-based software assistant that provides a framework of possible responses for everyday conversations around tricky topics.
The project brings together insights from research fields such as computer science, social science, media literacy, conflict resolution, and psychology, in addition to practitioners from communities focusing on health-related communications in journalism, vaccine safety, and Wikipedia.
Once completed, the ARTT Guide will help our users answer the question: “What can I say and how do I say it?”
tl;dr - It's bullshit. This describes how and why.
Capital Research Center conceived of this project after identifying a need for more fact-based, accurate descriptions of all of the various influencers of public policy issues. Many so-called “watchdog” groups are instead opponents of the outlets they are watching. Armed with 30-years of research and data on advocacy organizations, foundations, and donors, CRC utilizes a universe of well-trained contributors to help build the individual and organizational profiles that populate the website.
CRC has a perspective on the public policy process as well, but this resource is more important than that. We let the information speak for itself—information that frequently is not cited in reports about these individuals and organizations.
InfluenceWatch strives to be comprehensive, and profiles are frequently updated and written in a manner that’s accurate and measured. InfluenceWatch brings unprecedented transparency to the funding, motives, and interconnections of the entities profiled.
The InfluenceWatch team constantly edits published profiles to present up-to-date facts, add new connections, provide more information or context, improve sources, and otherwise strengthen the value of all of the information on the website.
A blocklist for QAnon, conspiracy, fake news, nazi websites for multiple applications, including web browser adblockers, DNSes, and even /etc/hosts. It looks like the lists (which are substantially identical in content) could be used to compile a database of known-bad domains. IPv4 and IPv6 supported.
These links are not meant to be scary - they are meant to be strictly informative. These things are not at all exclusive to furries - but are seen throughout the internet and in real life. These guides are made to make the fandom a safer place and to make people more aware of issues they otherwise may not know about.