by Nelson Graves | 14 Mar 2017 | Fake News, Future of Democracy, Media Literacy
This is the first in a series of News-Decoder articles on fake news. By Nelson Graves What is fake news? How does it spread? What can we do about it? News-Decoder has been working with students around the world to address these questions, which have acquired urgency...
by Nelson Graves | 17 Feb 2017 | Discovery, Donald Trump, Fake News, Future of Democracy, Technology, United States
Increasingly we are living in media silos that divide us from large numbers of fellow citizens. Here are some tricks for bursting your media bubble. Worried about alternative facts? Try entering an alternative universe. Like it or not, each of us lives in a media...
by Nelson Graves | 7 Feb 2017 | Economy, News Decoder Updates
By Nelson Graves Here’s a video produced by students at Columbia Journalism School that focuses on News-Decoder’s mission and unusual strategy — to build trust without going viral. Sonah Lee and Arijeta Lajka are master’s degree candidates who...
by Nelson Graves | 1 Feb 2017 | Americas, Donald Trump, Refugees, United States, Women's rights
By Nelson Graves Are you worried that Donald Trump will curtail civil liberties and undercut democratic institutions in the United States? Well, his election could also have profound implications for democracy and human rights in the rest of the world, where...
by Nelson Graves | 17 Jan 2017 | Guns in America, Indiana University, Student Posts, United States
The United States has a gun problem. Students at Indiana University are going to tell us about it in a series of stories. Source: The JAMA Network Read our series on “Guns in America” here. The United States has a gun problem. And students at Indiana...