Headlines For Nov. 19, 2021

As children of immigrants, we often take on additional roles that would otherwise be fulfilled by our parents. In a new country or a country that isn’t the only one we’ve ever known, we become the children who help with the chores, sometimes with the taxes, and often with explaining to our parents the documents health-care providers or airline personnel are asking for.

Australia on Friday (Nov 19) called for governments around the world to agree on “rules of the road” to fight the spread of misinformation and state-backed disinformation online. Foreign Minister Marise Payne said blocs like the Quad group – the United States, India, Japan and Australia – and global bodies like the United Nations were already working to strike a balance between harmful content and free expression online.

A video clip of Vice President Kamala Harris that is being shared on social media shows her making a surprising statement considering the Biden administration’s effort to get as many Americans as possible vaccinated against COVID-19. But the reason it’s surprising is because she never said it. This video has been altered.

Conservatives with low conscientiousness are the most likely to spread fake news online, according to a recent study conducted by researchers from Duke’s Fuqua School of Business. The study, “Of pandemics, politics, and personality: The role of conscientiousness and political ideology in the sharing of fake news” explores the interplay between political ideology and personality in fake news sharing behaviors.

A Greek attorney who officials said spread false news about the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccinations was the first to be detained under a new law aimed at blocking misinformation about the Coronavirus. While defendants in Greece generally aren’t named under privacy laws, the lawyer in this case was identified as Nikos Antoniadis, who Kathimerini said also faces charges of inciting disobedience.

Here is the latest installment of a weekly feature I have been running for some time on this blog — lessons from the nonprofit News Literacy Project, which aims to teach students and the public how to sort fact from fiction in our digital and contentious age. The News Literacy Project was founded more than a decade ago by Alan Miller, a Pulitzer Prize-winning former reporter at the Los Angeles Times, and it has become the leading provider of news literacy education. You can learn more about the organization and its resources and programs in this piece.

The House Republican leader made a number of false or misleading claims about the social spending bill, President Biden, immigration policy and Teslas.