Social Media & Misinformation

About this course

Most people now meet the news inside social apps, and those same apps are also where misinformation runs fastest. This classroom follows the problem from both directions: how newsrooms publish and listen on social platforms, why false stories routinely outrun the truth, the bots and engagement farms that manufacture consensus, how to identify doctored photos and video, what platforms actually do against fakes, and how transparency and solid correction habits rebuild an audience's trust. Each lesson turns one piece of the problem into a skill you can use the same day, beginning with your own feed.

Course outline