An invitation to reexamine your familiar world | Gillian Tett

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Can you spot the lies in your news feed? | Laura Smythe

Laura Smythe spent years in legacy newsrooms, and she thinks the habits journalists use to vet information should belong to all of us. Using Fyre Festival as a cautionary tale, she explains why media literacy is a vital skill in our age of deepfakes and algorithmic feeds — and de ...  Show more

I can't speak. Here's how I get people to listen | Jessica Irwin

Jessica Irwin is many things: a photographer, artist, author, performer. She also happens to be nonverbal, born with cerebral palsy that affects the muscles she needs to talk. Speaking through a device that turns her typed words into speech, she gives a sharp, funny and urgent re ...  Show more

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