A doctored GIF of a Parkland shooting survivor ripping up the Constitution. A fake story about a firefighter jailed for praying at the scene of a fire, branded as if it were from ABC News. An image of a shark swimming on a flooded highway.
Those and other examples of misinformation students might encounter flashed on screen during high school teacher Lacey Galbraith’s writing class in Nashville, Tennessee.
But Galbraith wanted to bring it closer to home. So she paused the video to show her students something factual: a Nashville TV station’s recent piece about the federal indictment of two Russian nationals. They’re accused of hiring a Tennessee-based company to create and disseminate propaganda and disinformation across U.S. social media platforms with the goal of amplifying domestic divisions.
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