Activate your “curiosity shield” and fight fake news with reputable resources–learn how to do it in your schools and classrooms.
In the 1930s, Upton Sinclair was one of the most prominent writers in the United States. But no amount of fame could protect him, when he ran for governor of California, from “one of the most well-orchestrated smear campaigns in American history,” instigated by political and business interests hostile to the muckraking revelations in Sinclair’s books, such as The Jungle, making him a victim of “a forerunner of [the] ‘fake news’” that’s so pervasive today.
— Read on www.eschoolnews.com/2019/08/27/learn-to-fight-fake-news-in-your-classrooms-and-schools/
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