Social media scaries We don’t need to sensationalize our content just to get attention.  But when it comes to the big box social media corporations, the reality IS scary. We can’t dial it down and risk our news community failing to grasp the gravity of the situation. The Social Dilemma team said it best: Big

How to verify news Step 3: Grow Your News Body After you’ve learned how to vet sources (here) and evaluate content (here), it’s time to exercise those muscles by expanding your body of news. Diversify your content sources. We do this at VNN by providing content from a variety of contributors like journalists, non-profit news

How to verify news Step 2: Evaluate Content Now that we can tell if a source is trustworthy, we can dive deeper into the process of evaluating the content we watch and read all the time (Missed Step 1? Click here to learn how to vet sources) The truth is, evaluating content is a lot

How to verify news Step 1: Vet Sources The way we verify news and information at VNN is by taking the same steps everyone should take to verify news and information. Before we start looking at the information, we need to look at where the information is coming from. For VNN, that means interviewing potential