While political disinformation is surging across the United States, one part of the news media is proving especially resilient in stopping the spread of false information — ethnic and Indigenous newsrooms, according to a new study by the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ).
“Thanks to their deep community ties and well-established credibility, ethnic newsrooms are often attuned to harmful rumors and falsehoods circulating within their communities well before those narratives manage to garner national attention,” the study concluded. The report was edited by ICFJ’s Julie Posetti, Nabeelah Shabbir and Kaylee Williams.
It is the second report published in a five-country study funded by the Scripps Howard Foundation as part of ICFJ’s Disarming Disinformation project and is based on research produced in collaboration with Arizona State University, the University of Maryland and the City St. George’s University of London.
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