Never mind the ballots
BFI Player’s fascinating collection of election films from the early 20th century to the 1970s They range from the funny Clangers voting cartoon from 1974 (ask your candidate in 2017 – are you offering free soup for all!) to a 1912 film of George Lansbury in the ‘suffragette election’ and in Bolton a suffragette addresses […]
Is Your News Fake?
Concerns about fake news are increasingly dominating the headlines and studies have shown that students often have difficulty evaluating the truth of resources. Hoaxy from the University of Indiana visualises the spread of fake news stories online. Recently the New York-based institute Data & Society published a report Media Manipulation and Disinformation Online which examines the […]
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