WASHINGTON — Is this story trustworthy? That’s a question The Poynter Institute says students need to be taught to answer themselves. Poynter believes one of the most effective ways to combat false ...

Fourteen-year-old Isabel Catalan stares intently at her laptop as she walks me through a recent assignment one sunny morning a few weeks before summer vacation. The studious eighth grader and I are ...

What’s it like to be teaching about elections in an unprecedented election year? Smith professors Anna Mwaba ’10 and Howard Gold have occupied just such a front-row seat to history in their courses ...

Perhaps the greatest challenge to academe in the current political environment is the ascendancy of a “post-truth,” “alternative fact,” “fake news” culture, in which claims are detached from evidence ...

At a technology summit in Brussels, Maarten Schenk had a harebrained idea. “We were brainstorming and thinking about how to reach people who like and share fake news online,” said Schenk, who runs the ...