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26 January, 2023 (Online, 2pm Eastern Time – US and Canada)

At this year’s National News Literacy Week: Public Trust, Media Credibility and Democracy event, Prof Sander van der Linden, Director of the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab at Cambridge University, will join a panel of experts to discuss and explore why people fall for falsehoods.

This event is presented in partnership with the American Psychological Association as part of a whole week of events coordinated by the News Literacy Project and the E.W. Scripps Company.

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