28 April, 2017
How to Spot Fake News
Wednesday, May 17, 7 pm
To be held at the Senior Center
RSVP requested to 508-497-9777 or hopkintonlibrary@hopkintonma.gov (event will only happen if enough RSVPs are received)
Do you want to learn to sharpen your digital skills to better navigate the online web of news, opinion, fact and spin we are inundated with every day? Editors and news outlets are being overwhelmed -- not just in politics, but in business, sports, and other coverage.
Join David Wallace, Boston University journalism instructor and former contributor to The New York Times and Reuters, for a program that will help you learn to streamline and assess news sources, manage social media and outsmart clickbait and spam. Take home a few tricks-of-the-trade, new web tools and steps that improve your local, global and subject-specific newsfeed – and avoid the Bowling Green massacre of misinformation.
