Peter Adams
@peteradams.bsky.social
Head of research & design at the News Literacy Project. newslit.org RumorGuard.org Checkology.org
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Fact Check: Trump Reading 'State Your Name' Was NOT A Gaffe While Swearing In U.S. Military Enlistees -- It's How It's Done
Fact Check: Trump Reading 'State Your Name' Was NOT A Gaffe While Swearing In U.S. Military Enlistees -- It's How It's Done
Did Donald Trump mistakenly read "state your name" instead of using his own name while swearing in newly enlisted U.S. troops during the half-time of a Washington Commanders - Detroit Lions game? No, that's not true: Prompting "state your name"...
leadstories.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Fact Check: Trump Reading 'State Your Name' Was NOT A Gaffe While Swearing In U.S. Military Enlistees -- It's How It's Done
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Will Smith has a reading foundation and visits public schools. Just so you know the guy who hit that game winning homer has done good things for the LAUSD
Daughter comes out of school with a brand new Dodgers hat and I ask her where she got it.
"Oh this guy Will Smith from the Dodgers read us a story at school today"
"Oh this guy Will Smith from the Dodgers read us a story at school today"
November 2, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Will Smith has a reading foundation and visits public schools. Just so you know the guy who hit that game winning homer has done good things for the LAUSD
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Again, when I worked at Popular Science one of the most popular stories was 10 ways you can tell for yourself the earth is round.
![Pop Base tweets: "Kim Kardashian said on ‘The Kardashians’ that she believes the moon landing was fake:
“They’re gonna say I’m crazy no matter what, but like, go to TikTok. See for yourself. […] There’s no gravity on the moon. Why is the flag blowing? The shoes that they have in the museum that they wore on the moon is a different print in the photos. Why are there no stars?”"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreickzwdynkak7r4lur6afktglm3gontqsq5r5c7jeewyecyd4dczla@jpeg)
October 31, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Again, when I worked at Popular Science one of the most popular stories was 10 ways you can tell for yourself the earth is round.
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October 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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AI chatbots such as ChatGPT and Copilot routinely distort the news and struggle to distinguish facts from opinion. That's according to a major new study from 22 international public broadcasters, including DW.
AI chatbots fail at accurate news, major study reveals – DW – 10/22/2025
www.dw.com
October 23, 2025 at 10:45 AM
AI chatbots such as ChatGPT and Copilot routinely distort the news and struggle to distinguish facts from opinion. That's according to a major new study from 22 international public broadcasters, including DW.
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"AI Assistants Get News Wrong 45% of the Time, Study Finds"
"When people don’t know what to trust, they end up trusting nothing at all..."
gizmodo.com/ai-assistant...
#AIIsTheProblem #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians
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"When people don’t know what to trust, they end up trusting nothing at all..."
gizmodo.com/ai-assistant...
#AIIsTheProblem #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians
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AI Assistants Get News Wrong 45% of the Time, Study Finds
gizmodo.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:30 PM
"AI Assistants Get News Wrong 45% of the Time, Study Finds"
"When people don’t know what to trust, they end up trusting nothing at all..."
gizmodo.com/ai-assistant...
#AIIsTheProblem #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians
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"When people don’t know what to trust, they end up trusting nothing at all..."
gizmodo.com/ai-assistant...
#AIIsTheProblem #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians
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It's top story on CNN, WP, ABC news, and 2nd story on NYT website.
Not sure what the TV is showing but seems like the websites are covering it. Language is "huge crowds," and "millions expected across nation."
Not sure what the TV is showing but seems like the websites are covering it. Language is "huge crowds," and "millions expected across nation."
October 18, 2025 at 10:26 PM
It's top story on CNN, WP, ABC news, and 2nd story on NYT website.
Not sure what the TV is showing but seems like the websites are covering it. Language is "huge crowds," and "millions expected across nation."
Not sure what the TV is showing but seems like the websites are covering it. Language is "huge crowds," and "millions expected across nation."
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Highly recommend this conversation with two of today’s leading science communicators, who offer their insights on both the challenges and opportunities facing science & health communication.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
Public Health Is Outgunned: A Conversation w Science Communicators Katelyn Jetelina and Jessica Steier
Podcast Episode · Why Should I Trust You? · 10/09/2025 · 1h 15m
podcasts.apple.com
October 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Highly recommend this conversation with two of today’s leading science communicators, who offer their insights on both the challenges and opportunities facing science & health communication.
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“You don’t know who people are online. If you see somebody post a call for an ‘eye for an eye’, for example, you know they could be an American who is airing a reprehensible viewpoint, or they could be a foreign influence agent trying to deepen division.” - NLP's @peteradams.bsky.social @edweek.org
How Teachers Can Talk to Students About Charlie Kirk's Assassination
Avoiding discussion of difficult topics in school is a missed learning opportunity.
www.edweek.org
September 17, 2025 at 8:13 PM
“You don’t know who people are online. If you see somebody post a call for an ‘eye for an eye’, for example, you know they could be an American who is airing a reprehensible viewpoint, or they could be a foreign influence agent trying to deepen division.” - NLP's @peteradams.bsky.social @edweek.org
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“Ideological actors, trolls, propagandists, people who are looking to divide Americans, to push misinformation, are all going to jump into the void of that curiosity gap where an event has happened, & everyone wants more details than are available.” - @peteradams.bsky.social
@edweek.org story ⤵️
@edweek.org story ⤵️
How Teachers Can Talk to Students About Charlie Kirk's Assassination
Avoiding discussion of difficult topics in school is a missed learning opportunity.
www.edweek.org
September 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
“Ideological actors, trolls, propagandists, people who are looking to divide Americans, to push misinformation, are all going to jump into the void of that curiosity gap where an event has happened, & everyone wants more details than are available.” - @peteradams.bsky.social
@edweek.org story ⤵️
@edweek.org story ⤵️
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There were initial reports of someone being taken into custody after the Kirk shooting, but NYT is reporting police have said the detainee wasn't the shooter. So we literally know nothing about the shooter and their motives. Any speculation is bullshit, and treat this as a source credibility moment.
Update from Michael Levenson
www.nytimes.com
September 10, 2025 at 8:06 PM
There were initial reports of someone being taken into custody after the Kirk shooting, but NYT is reporting police have said the detainee wasn't the shooter. So we literally know nothing about the shooter and their motives. Any speculation is bullshit, and treat this as a source credibility moment.
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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.
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.
🚨 Educators: Don't walk but run to that subscribe button because ... The Sift is back!
💡 Featuring our popular Daily Do Now slides, RumorGuard examples + top news literacy topics, this week's edition explores:
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- News avoidance & more
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💡 Featuring our popular Daily Do Now slides, RumorGuard examples + top news literacy topics, this week's edition explores:
- AI & teens' mental health
- News avoidance & more
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#NewsLiteracy
The Sift: AI & social media impact on teens
How social media and AI affect teens’ mental health, tips for news avoidance, a roundup of Taylor Swift rumors, Joe Rogan’s climate misinterpretation, and a Mountain Dew ban rumor debunked.
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September 8, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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.
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.
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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...
Trust in elections rises after ‘inoculations’ meant to preempt false fraud claims
New U.S.-Brazil study points to ways of countering election misinformation, political scientists say
www.science.org
August 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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...
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Just in time for back to school: @newslit.org introduces Scroll Smarter, a family guide to news literacy.
Check it out! newslit.org/scroll-smarter
#chooseetobecurious
Check it out! newslit.org/scroll-smarter
#chooseetobecurious
Scroll Smarter
Our free monthly newsletter gives parents and caregivers quick, helpful tips to make sense of today’s information overload. You’ll get smart, family-friendly tools to help your kids think more clearly...
newslit.org
August 20, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Just in time for back to school: @newslit.org introduces Scroll Smarter, a family guide to news literacy.
Check it out! newslit.org/scroll-smarter
#chooseetobecurious
Check it out! newslit.org/scroll-smarter
#chooseetobecurious
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"86% of physicians surveyed said they'd encountered more misinformation among patients within the last five years than in years before."
www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinfo...
www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinfo...
Doctors say medical misinformation has gotten worse, survey finds
86% of physicians surveyed said they'd encountered more misinformation among patients within the last five years than in years before.
www.nbcnews.com
August 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
"86% of physicians surveyed said they'd encountered more misinformation among patients within the last five years than in years before."
www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinfo...
www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinfo...
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❌ NO: This is not a real photo of European politicians & heads of state waiting with clasped hands in a hallway for President Donald Trump during peace talks on the Russia-Ukraine War.
It's AI. Avoid falling for such fakes by vetting the source & searching for other pics.
go.newslit.org/HallwayAI
It's AI. Avoid falling for such fakes by vetting the source & searching for other pics.
go.newslit.org/HallwayAI
August 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
❌ NO: This is not a real photo of European politicians & heads of state waiting with clasped hands in a hallway for President Donald Trump during peace talks on the Russia-Ukraine War.
It's AI. Avoid falling for such fakes by vetting the source & searching for other pics.
go.newslit.org/HallwayAI
It's AI. Avoid falling for such fakes by vetting the source & searching for other pics.
go.newslit.org/HallwayAI
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🚨Journalism job alert🚨
We're hiring an investigative reporter to join my team at @wired.com. We're looking for someone who has both traditional and non-traditional reporting skills (coding/data work/OSINT, etc). Fit the bill? Come work with me! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CondeCareers...
We're hiring an investigative reporter to join my team at @wired.com. We're looking for someone who has both traditional and non-traditional reporting skills (coding/data work/OSINT, etc). Fit the bill? Come work with me! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CondeCareers...
Senior Writer, Investigations
WIRED is where a better future is imagined. For three decades, we have been the indispensable guide to a world in constant transformation. We cover humanity’s biggest challenges, from climate change t...
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August 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
🚨Journalism job alert🚨
We're hiring an investigative reporter to join my team at @wired.com. We're looking for someone who has both traditional and non-traditional reporting skills (coding/data work/OSINT, etc). Fit the bill? Come work with me! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CondeCareers...
We're hiring an investigative reporter to join my team at @wired.com. We're looking for someone who has both traditional and non-traditional reporting skills (coding/data work/OSINT, etc). Fit the bill? Come work with me! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CondeCareers...
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not traditionally what is meant by the idiom "cash in one's chips"
BREAKING: Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips
www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...
www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...
Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips
THE CITY reported the incident to law enforcement and was promptly contacted by the Brooklyn U.S. attorney’s office.
www.thecity.nyc
August 21, 2025 at 12:22 AM
not traditionally what is meant by the idiom "cash in one's chips"
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"My goal was to never tell students what they should think about a given social problem or controversial issue — but rather to make sure they were informed & thinking in careful, logical & critical ways about it."
NLP's @peteradams.bsky.social provides many #NewsLiteracy lessons in this profile.
NLP's @peteradams.bsky.social provides many #NewsLiteracy lessons in this profile.
NLPeople: Peter Adams, Senior Vice President of Research and Design
Get to know Peter Adams, the News Literacy Project's senior vice president of research and design and one of its longest serving employees.
go.newslit.org
July 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
"My goal was to never tell students what they should think about a given social problem or controversial issue — but rather to make sure they were informed & thinking in careful, logical & critical ways about it."
NLP's @peteradams.bsky.social provides many #NewsLiteracy lessons in this profile.
NLP's @peteradams.bsky.social provides many #NewsLiteracy lessons in this profile.
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What do these twelve Facebook ads for massive discounts on guitars and other music gear from major online retailers have in common? They're all scams.
July 4, 2025 at 1:18 AM
What do these twelve Facebook ads for massive discounts on guitars and other music gear from major online retailers have in common? They're all scams.
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“It’s so essential as a foundational piece for everyone to be able to distinguish between different kinds of information, especially in an information environment where everything is just referred to & presented to us as content.” - @peteradams.bsky.social
🎙 Peter & Kim Bowman talk #NewsLiteracy
🎙 Peter & Kim Bowman talk #NewsLiteracy
News Literacy in America: A Teen Study, with Kim Bowman and Peter Adams - AVID Open Access
Kim Bowman and Peter Adams from the News Literacy Project, a nonpartisan nonprofit, discuss the results of their study, News Literacy in America: A Survey of Teen Information Attitudes, Habits and Ski...
avidopenaccess.org
June 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM
“It’s so essential as a foundational piece for everyone to be able to distinguish between different kinds of information, especially in an information environment where everything is just referred to & presented to us as content.” - @peteradams.bsky.social
🎙 Peter & Kim Bowman talk #NewsLiteracy
🎙 Peter & Kim Bowman talk #NewsLiteracy
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"Meta’s enforcement of its manipulated media policy is inconsistent. It must prioritize investing in technology to identify and label manipulated audio and video at scale in order that users are properly informed."
www.oversightboard.com/news/identif...
www.oversightboard.com/news/identif...
Identify and Label AI-Created Audio Clips At-Scale
The Oversight Board has overturned Meta’s decision not to label a likely manipulated audio clip of two Iraqi Kurdish politicians discussing rigging parliamentary elections, less than two weeks before ...
www.oversightboard.com
June 26, 2025 at 10:24 PM
"Meta’s enforcement of its manipulated media policy is inconsistent. It must prioritize investing in technology to identify and label manipulated audio and video at scale in order that users are properly informed."
www.oversightboard.com/news/identif...
www.oversightboard.com/news/identif...
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“This is something students have a right to; it’s key to their civic empowerment.” - @peteradams.bsky.social
A podcast for the weekend: On Unpacking Education, NLP's Kim Bowman & Peter Adams discuss our "News Literacy in America" report & why students want #MediaLiteracy
go.newslit.org/UnpackEdNLP
A podcast for the weekend: On Unpacking Education, NLP's Kim Bowman & Peter Adams discuss our "News Literacy in America" report & why students want #MediaLiteracy
go.newslit.org/UnpackEdNLP
News Literacy in America: A Teen Study, with Kim Bowman and Peter Adams - AVID Open Access
Kim Bowman and Peter Adams from the News Literacy Project, a nonpartisan nonprofit, discuss the results of their study, News Literacy in America: A Survey of Teen Information Attitudes, Habits and Skills (2024).
avidopenaccess.org
June 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
“This is something students have a right to; it’s key to their civic empowerment.” - @peteradams.bsky.social
A podcast for the weekend: On Unpacking Education, NLP's Kim Bowman & Peter Adams discuss our "News Literacy in America" report & why students want #MediaLiteracy
go.newslit.org/UnpackEdNLP
A podcast for the weekend: On Unpacking Education, NLP's Kim Bowman & Peter Adams discuss our "News Literacy in America" report & why students want #MediaLiteracy
go.newslit.org/UnpackEdNLP