Once upon a time there was a professor of history and education at Stanford University who was fed up with the misinformation propagated on the internet. His name was Sam Weinburg, and he founded Civic Online Reasoning.
Just across the way, an Assistant Professor in the Comparative Media Studies department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology named Justin Reich was pondering how we can determine fact from fiction with so many sources of information.
These two thinkers knew that fact checking had been flipped on its head with the advent of the web, so they asked Patrick to act as a communications liaison for the MIT Open Learning Library. The interactive online course that followed was a smash hit, teaching grad students and professors alike proper snooping instructions for those times when you think, “wait, for real?”. You can watch the video on the different techniques used by professional fact checkers right down here.
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