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saffronhowden.bsky.social

National affairs correspondent, ACM. PhD candidate researching misinformation and media literacy. Get in touch: [email protected]

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This headline for an Illawarra Mercury court story though

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Make facts great again.

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

Petition to stop responding emotionally to every post you see. It feeds misinformation and polarisation.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

👋🏼 journalists. Few people know what a “critical incident investigation” means (how about “internal police investigation”?) and “searched” is way easier to understand than “executed a search warrant”. #news #styleguide

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

POV: When you’ve created a tested and proven pilot course for a national media literacy program for adults to help fight #misinformation and it’s almost the weekend 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

My fellow PhD-er at UC is looking for speakers of languages other than English in Australia for her research. Help her out and spread the word 🙏🏼

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

When you get the results of your research and they are statistically significant and going in the right direction #phdlife #medialiteracy

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Brutal summary of conspiracy theorists’ psychological needs that pretty much sums up social media: (tl;dr feeling scared and confused, they identify an enemy to blame, and thus feel vindicated and holier than thou) “This lack of analytic thinking can leave one vulnerable …” (1/4)

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

This is really important for journalism in an era where making things up on the fly is being normalised in public discourse: call it out in the headlines. Good on The Age.

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

Wouldn’t want to annoy a kangaroo, would you? (This evening outside Canberra.)

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Some of the best reporting I’ve seen in yonks. Have been thinking about it a lot over the past 24 hours or so - what this influencer/YouTuber/podcaster trend means for democracy, news media, the information landscape. 👏🏼 @davey.bsky.social @leonyin.org & co www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

submitted 35 days ago • 3 comments

Anyway, please enjoy the extraordinary patterns on this goanna

submitted 38 days ago • 9 comments

Some information literacy 101 here. I know people who could benefit.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

We need more education for the whole of society in the areas of #MediaLiteracy and #Disinformation awareness.