Called NewsWise, the idea is to enhance general news literacy among students aged nine to 19. Continue reading →

Almost half of Canadians believe scientific findings are ‘a matter of opinion,’ a poll released Monday shows.  Continue reading →

If there’s terror or disaster, it must be time for fake tweets. Here’s how to spot them. Continue reading →

Over six million people have watched a fake livestream that was purportedly showing “the face of Hurricane Irma,” when in fact is was looped video footage of a cloud formation in New Brunswick from over six years ago. Continue reading →

People facing Hurricane Irma have enough to deal with without worrying about without flying sharks. Continue reading →

Hundreds of fake Facebook accounts, probably run from Russia, spent about $100,000 on ads during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the social network said Wednesday. Continue reading →

A photo of Ibrahim Hindy, taken from a Global News interview, was used in a fake news story about a Texas mosque turning away non-Muslim victims of Hurricane Harvey. Continue reading →

As water flooded Texas, every possible kind of fake news about the disaster flooded digital spaces. Continue reading →

It’s one thing to debate taking down statues of Confederates, quite another to dig up genuine Confederates, mouldering in their graves these many years. Is it happening? No. Continue reading →

A doctored image that circulated misleadingly after the Charlottesville riot has been around since at least 2010, when it was used by an antifa group in Edinburgh. Continue reading →