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News Literacy Project is a partisan organization that claims to be "the nation’s leading provider of news literacy education".[1]

How to Push Back on Thanksgiving

"Experts" from the News Literacy Project, the National Institute for Civil Discourse and the League of Women Voters featured a discussion on Nov 16, 2023 on how to correct relatives on Thanksgiving.[2],[3]

"When a friend or loved one shares a viral hoax, fabricated photo or conspiracy theory, how do you respond? With the holiday season and a presidential election ahead of us, we can expect to encounter rumors and falsehoods along with heated debate. We each have an opportunity within our networks of influence to build understanding and trust in our democracy. This webinar offers strategies for productive, civil conversations – especially when discussing misinformation.
Experts from the News Literacy Project, the National Institute for Civil Discourse and the League of Women Voters will talk about how and why misinformation manipulates emotions and exploits biases, provide strategies for civil conversation and resources to help you debunk falsehoods in a productive way and discuss opportunities to help your community find reliable election information.

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Meet the Presenters
DeMario Phipps-Smith is the senior manager of community learning for NLP, where he leads news literacy training for adults around the country.
Dr. Carolyn Lukensmeyer is the former executive director of the National Institute for Civil Discourse, the founder of the nonprofit AmericaSpeaks and a leader in the field of deliberative democracy.
Chelsey Cartwright is the program manager for the League of Women Voters Democracy Truth Project, where she works to counter mis- and disinformation and to advance a better public understanding of the democratic and electoral process.

Red Flag Phrases

News Literacy Project on Local News Report Warns: Be Wary of People asking you to 'Do your own research'

"The News Literacy Program warns that “common misinformation themes” include phrases such as “[T]he media won’t report this” and “[D]o your own research”.

CLAIM: 37,000 Teachers Use 'News Literacy Project'

Former CNN Host Brian Stelter Teaches Teens About 'Misinformation' for 'News Literacy Project'
Promotional Video for News Literacy Project

From RAIR Foundation in February, 2022 (including commentary):[4]

The News Literacy Project (NLP) is a propaganda outlet masquerading as “non-partisan.” The dangerous organization teaches school children how to be mindless leftist narrative consumers.
Left-wing commentator and notorious fake news purveyor Brian Stelter of CNN’s deceptively named “Reliable Sources” was featured last week teaching young teens about “misinformation” in Queens, New York. During the segment, students are indoctrinated by the NLP’s Checkology e-learning platform. Stelter said that NLP founder Alan C. Miller “says that these lessons are now used by more than 37,000 educators.”
The company behind NLP is E.W. Scripps. Checkology is funded by militant left groups with bland sounding names: Science Literacy Foundation, Argosy Foundation, Dow Jones Foundation, Grable Foundation. Also, see NewsGuard, another left-wing group focused on teaching children about “misinformation,” which has striking similarities to the News Literacy Project.

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The News Literacy Project warns that “common misinformation themes” include phrases such as “[T]he media won’t report this” and “[D]o your own research”. Ebonee Rice of the News Literacy Project was featured on a segment of the local news in Tucson, Arizona to discuss “misinformation,” including “red flag phrases”:
Wesley Lowery
“Top journalists and digital media experts anchor the platform’s interactive lessons,” according to the Checkology website, which features Wesley Lowery.
Lowery is vastly known for his highly partisan coverage during the 2014 Ferguson riots, where he was arrested for “interfering with a police officer’s duties” as he “failed to comply with ‘repeated commands to immediately exit’ a McDonald’s”.
Lowery wrote an opinion piece for the New York Times in 2020 decrying “neutral objectivity” which is a tool of “whiteness”. Ironically, the company behind the News Literacy Project, the E.W. Scripps Company, brags on their website that they “are one of the nation’s largest local TV broadcasters, serving communities with quality, objective local journalism.”
So which is it? Are they objective or not? Why feature Wesley Lowery if they strive for objective journalism? “Since American journalism’s pivot many decades ago from an openly partisan press to a model of professed objectivity,” Lowery argues in a 2020 New York Times OpEd, “the mainstream has allowed what it considers objective truth to be decided almost exclusively by white reporters and their mostly white bosses.”
Instead, Lowery says one should use “moral clarity” in reporting. He gives an example:
"Neutral objectivity trips over itself to find ways to avoid telling the truth. Neutral objectivity insists we use clunky euphemisms like ‘officer-involved shooting.’ Moral clarity, and a faithful adherence to grammar and syntax, would demand we use words that most precisely mean the thing we’re trying to communicate: ‘the police shot someone.’"

Canadian truckers against vaccine mandates are supported by nazis promoting violence

NPR: Truckers for Freedom is 'Rooted in Extremism'

From RAIR Foundation in February, 2022 (including commentary):[5],[6]

"Canadian truckers fighting Covid “vaccine” mandates are “rooted in extremism”, “overstating their size and popularity,” and supported by “fake accounts with ties to foreign content mills,” according to a lesson for schoolchildren devised by the “News Literacy Project” (NLP).

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"A mass email sent to teachers and supporters Monday dedicates an entire section to the Canadian truckers, who have dared to fight back against coronavirus tyranny and “vaccine” coercion. The propaganda, referred to as an “educator’s guide to the week in news literacy,” can also be found on their website.
All Smear; No Substance
“Canadian trucker protests against government COVID-19 regulations have attracted significant financial and political support from non-Canadian sources, including some extremist groups,” the mass email ominously warns. Further, those supporting the truckers are nazis who carry swastika flags and call for violence.
For the sake of “news literacy,” RAIR checked the source of the claim, an NPR article by Nell Clark dated February 10, 2022. The NPR article did not give specifics, naturally, but linked to an interview with Stephanie Carvin, a university professor. Carvin also declines to name the extremists or give specifics about their alleged extremist activities, but ominously warns that they are there, for sure.
Once again highlighting the leftist authoritarian streak, Stephanie Carvin also laments that the protest is not being squashed by authorities.
Further, Clark warns that protesters are displaying “hate symbols and acutely anti-Semitic writing” such as “U.S. Confederate flags and swastikas.” Some of the protesters are also “calling for violence,” according to the article:
Ottawa City Councilor Matthew Luloff told Morning Edition that hate symbols and acutely anti-Semitic writing have been seen at the rallies. Along with Canadian flags, some protestors have also been showing off U.S. Confederate flags and swastikas.
“Some of the most well-known radicals in this country have now descended upon the capital. Some of them are calling for violence. Some of them are threatening individual politicians,” said Luloff.
Matthew Luloff’s lies are addressed at Breitbart.[7]
One would think the News Literacy Program would insist upon the most basic of standards. The NLP ironically smears a group of people who object to being forced to take an ineffective and dangerous injection as nazis. If not for the vile medical experiments during Hitler’s reign, the Nuremberg Trials, and the resulting Nuremberg Code would have never happened.
Read a portion of the very first point in the Nuremberg Code, a standard that has been sacred until the coronavirus pandemic:
"The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, over-reaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion; and should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved, as to enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision…"
Those who are fighting to maintain this basic societal standard are now being referred to as nazis by the News Literacy Program and their allies.
The Contradictory Leftist Narrative
Stephanie Carvin gained attention at the Daily Caller for similar statements made on CNN, where she feared that the Canadian truckers are sparking a “worldwide rebellion.” Ironically, Carvin’s “fear porn” conflicts with the message from the “News Literacy Program,” which downplays the influence of the Canadian truckers, using Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s approach of dismissing the truckers and their supporters as a “small, fringe minority"
"“They have also become a flashpoint for false and misleading posts overstating their size and popularity (often through out-of-context photos and video) among other claims,” said the NLP email.
A question for teachers to pose to children is offered:
"Why do promoters of political causes so often exaggerate the size of gatherings and degree of public support for their efforts?"
So which is it? Are the Canadian Truckers sparking a “worldwide rebellion”? Or are they “overstating their size and popularity”? It cannot be both.
‘Foreign Content Mills’
Further, the News Literacy Project warns that “fake accounts with ties to foreign content mills” are swarming Facebook to encourage similar protests in the United States:
Facebook officials told NBC News on Feb. 11 that some groups using the platform to encourage ‘convoy’-style protests in the United States were run by fake accounts with ties to foreign content mills.
The NBC “news” article cited claims that “anti-vaccine and conspiracy-driven communities in the U.S. are quickly pivoting to embrace and promote the idea of disruptive convoys.” The article also features deplatforming activist Joan Donovan...
A question for children is posed by the online “educational” platform:
How can foreign-run content mills make money by creating large Facebook groups about the convoy?
Other themes of the NLP guide for schoolchildren include the dangers of going against state propaganda i.e. “medical misinformation” and how “news” organizations are using TikTok to target young audiences.

'Infodemic Management' Connection

Infodemic Manager Training Booklet (Screenshot)

From the World Health Organization's Infodemic Management Manager Training:

"Maggie Farley is a Teaching Fellow for the Google News Lab based in Washington, D.C. She was a foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times for 14 years, based in Asia and then in New York, covering the U.N. After leaving the LA Times, she was a partner in a start-up and later became a professional fellow at American University, teaching writing and exploring engagement design for journalism. For students and her conspiracy-theorist cousin, she co-created Factitious, a digital game that playfully teaches how to discern factual news from misinformation, which now has more than 1 million plays. She is also a member of the News Literacy Project’s National Leadership Council and the former chair of the Washington, D.C. Advisory Board."

Infodemic Management Manager Training

Maggie Farley was listed as a "speaker" or "trainer" at the World Health Organization's Infodemic Management Manager Training[8] in November 2020 co-sponsored by US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and Risk Communication and Community Engagement Collective Service (RCCE)

National Journalism Advisory Council

From the News Literacy Project website as of November 9, 2023:[9]

The National Journalism Advisory Council spearheads the expansion of NLP’s engagement with news organizations and journalists, networks with new partners and supporters, amplifies NLP’s voice and helps news organizations work to build trust with various communities.

Board of Directors

From the News Literacy Project website as of November 9, 2023:[10]

Staff

From the News Literacy Project website as of November 9, 2023:[11]

References

  1. ↑ Archive Link: News Literacy Project Homepage (accessed November 9, 2023)
  2. ↑ Productive conversations without confrontation (accessed November 9, 2023)
  3. ↑ Archive Link: Productive conversations without confrontation (accessed November 9, 2023)
  4. ↑ ALERT: 37,000 Teachers Use Left-Wing 'News Literacy Project' to Indoctrinate Children (Videos) (accessed November 9, 2023)
  5. ↑ 'News Literacy Program': American Children Taught that Canadian Truckers are 'Rooted in Extremism' (accessed November 9, 2023)
  6. ↑ Trucker convoys: Facebook phonies and foreign ties (accessed November 9, 2023)
  7. ↑ Ottawa City Councilman: Freedom Convoy Protesters Are ‘Well-Known Radicals,’ ‘Miscreants’ (accessed November 9, 2023)
  8. ↑ First Who Infodemic Manager Training (accessed July 27, 2022)
  9. ↑ National Journalism Advisory Council (accessed November 9, 2023)
  10. ↑ Board of Directors (accessed November 9, 2023)
  11. ↑ Staff (accessed November 9, 2023)
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