🙂 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.

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.

⚠️ 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

🚨 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

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⚠️ 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 🍿

big day for me. for *us.*

🍌 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.

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

Nikola Jokic messes up Domantas Sabonis' hair with the laser assist to Gordon

Great 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

OF COURSE IT WAS FREDDIE FREEMAN. WE'RE DONE HERE

"Unbelievable stuff from Will Klein!"

This freakin World Series game!!! Also feelin for my EDT watchers - been there, experienced that 😴

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That Mariners collapse had some Red Sox 03 vibes. Really brutal for Seattle.

📢 ICYMI: We have a new website! That's it - check it out. 📌 newslit.org #NewsLiteracy

🤔 Parental controls on social media can be confusing. We're here to explain & help! ➕ When friends & family have opposite beliefs, where is a good place to find facts? 👀 Check out today's NEW edition of Scroll Smarter, our monthly newsletter for families: go.newslit.org/ScrollSmartO...

No longer is critically examining a video enough to tell if it's real or AI. Sora has changed the game. 🎞 Our very real explainer: www.tiktok.com/@newslitproj... #MediaLiteracy

🏠 We have a NEW home! Easier scrolling, simpler searching, story + impact rich, translatable into multiple languages & accessible. ✨ Check it out: newslit.org

"Until recently, videos were reasonably reliable as evidence of actual events, even after it became easy to edit photographs & text in realistic ways. Sora’s high-quality video, however, raises the risk that viewers will lose all trust in what they see, experts said." @stuartathompson.bsky.social

The #AI cat is so, so outta the bag. Be careful scrolling your feeds, folks... (or just go touch grass!)

WNBA has to stop the lights off bullshit that soon, if the shot had been released on time we would not have seen whether it went in or not

❤️ Supporting #NewsLiteracy just got a little easier with NLP fundraisers! 🎙 Use your voice to amplify the urgent need for our work with ready-to-go templates that make it easy to start a fundraiser & promote it to your friends, family & community. 👉🏾 Join the movement today: newslit.org/fundraise

🎉 BIG NEWS: We're excited to announce that 14 school districts have joined our District Fellowship program, including Chicago Public Schools. ℹ️ The 3-year fellowship provides $30,000 grants & customized support to implement news literacy education districtwide. 🔗 Read more: go.newslit.org/DFP2025

Two people misidentified online as suspects in the fatal shooting of right-wing US activist Charlie Kirk told me today they were terrified by the misinformation targeting them, as the manhunt for the real killer continued. www.france24.com/en/live-news...

With the way students experience & consume info about breaking news stories, it's critical to build news literacy into conversations about events like the shooting of Charlie Kirk & give them agency + the skills to navigate our increasingly fraught digital landscape. 🎞 go.newslit.org/TikTokKirk

👀 Scroll Smarter will keep things upbeat & actionable, but we also won’t shy away from real-world issues facing young people. Today's edition includes: - AI bunnies on a trampoline: Why they went viral & what you can do to help kids not be duped - The health impacts of AI - KPop Demon Hunters

🧵 Scroll Smarter with us! ✨ The first issue of our NEW monthly newsletter for families is here & action-packed with tips + videos to help you navigate today’s complex info landscape. ➕ Each month, we'll answer a reader question in the family Q&A. 🔗 Read & subscribe: go.newslit.org/ScrollSmarte...

Share The Sift with a #teacher or three in your life! Kudos to the awesome team of @hannahcov.bsky.social @pamelabrunskill.bsky.social @peteradams.bsky.social @susanmini.bsky.social @lourdesvenard.bsky.social & others on a tremendous first issue of the school year.

👀 Is it Monday yet?? The Sift newsletter returns for the school year Sept. 8 & you don't want to miss out! 💡 Daily Do Now activity slides 💡 Pop culture & real-world lessons 💡 Discussion Q's to spark critical thinking ➕ so much more 🔗 Subscribe & share: newslit.org/educators/sift #Newsletter

❌ NO: This isn't a legit statement from Piotr Szczerek, the Polish CEO who snatched a hat intended for a child after a #USOpen match. ⚠️ When a topic stirs up outrage online, expect trolls to exploit that anger by sharing misleading or entirely fabricated content. 🔗 go.newslit.org/USOpenHat

New study by @brendannyhan.bsky.social, @jasonreifler.bsky.social & colleagues demonstrates that prebunking election fraud rumors — by warning about anticipated false claims & filling conceptual gaps that those claims exploit — helps to reduce belief in falsehoods: www.science.org/content/arti...

We can’t control a lot of things online, but we can control how we engage and use critical thinking techniques

Listen, our social media team was ON IT yesterday. Some engagement news, with a side of media literacy.