This Dispatch is informed by our forthcoming 2025 article, āMedia Literacy in the Crosshairs: NATOās Strategic Goals and the Revival of Protectionist…
TheĀ Washington Postās coverage of a January 2023Ā studyĀ arguing that the post-2016 coverage of Russia election meddling may have been overblown,Ā reveals a corrosive trend…
The consolidation of American media by a handful of monopolies has had wide-reaching effects on our politics and culture. A real decline…
A September 2022 report from Tessa Jolls, president of the Center for Media Literacy, titled āBuilding Resiliency: Media Literacy as a Strategic Defense Strategy for the…
Originally published at CounterPunch On June 24, 2022, a majority ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States officially reversed the…
Censorship is an ineffective solution that only complicates the threats posed by fake news
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