by Zach Dawes Jr | May 3, 2022 | News
Climate dis/misinformation is widespread on social media and little is being done to curb or counter it by five major platforms, according to a Greenpeace report published on April 21. A series of 27 “yes or no” questions was used to assess how five social media...
by Chris Richardson | Dec 1, 2021 | Opinion
Karl Barth famously said, “Preach with the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other.” Today, his audience would likely respond, “The Washington Times or The Washington Post?” For pastors today, our audience often seems more concerned with the logo on the...
by Nell Green | Aug 18, 2020 | Opinion
We sat around the table asking each other, “How can we address this?” A relative of one of our anti-trafficking coalition’s committee members had posted an article about a ruse where girls were lured to cars in a mall parking lot and kidnapped. After the abduction,...
by Colin Harris | May 22, 2020 | Opinion
“Pandemic” would be a reasonable guess for Dictionary.com’s choice for the “Word of the Year” in 2020. In my memory, nothing has consumed our public and private lives with the intensity that has been caused by the presence and spread of this virus. Observations have...
by Elmo Familiaran | Jan 10, 2020 | Opinion
The emergence of technology for altering photos and videos raises questions about how we can be sure of what is real and true. As malevolent actors manipulate content to shape public perception through misdirection and disinformation, the public is faced with...
