Identifying Misinformation & Disinformation, Fact Checking, and more with Ashley Edwards, U.S. Partnerships Manager at Google

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 First things first, this is an evergreen episode. This episode, this interview, this conversation, is one you will be able to listen to time-and-time again, and will always be relevant to share with friends and family. Now that we’ve defined evergreen, let’s get on with it. This interview is with Ashley Edwards, who is a U.S. Partnerships Manager at Google. She’s a former journalist and a former editor, and now works on team Google on the Google News Initiative and media literacy partnerships. She’s basically the go-to media literacy guru – we love to see it. In our conversation with Ashley, we walk through media literacy basics, like ‘what is fact checking?’ and ‘what is a verified source,’ and also, ‘what is a second source?’ Loads of questions, loads of answers. We also talk about Google’s fact checking resources and tools available to you, us, journalists, and everyone under the sun. You’re going to want to bookmark these. Oh, and we also talk the ol’ catfish tool #1, the reverse image search. 

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