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Margaret Jacks Professor of Education & History, Stanford University, Emeritus, Founder SHEG. Co-principal & Chief Innovation Officer, Digital Inquiry Group
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Kim Kardashian Says the Moon Landing Was Fake. There’s a Lesson Here for Schools

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By Sam Wineburg
| Education Week Verified
The population of the United States is 342 million, 11 million fewer than the number of followers Kim Kardashian has on Instagram. While chatting with a producer during a break from her reality TV show last year, Kardashian doubted whether there had been a moon landing. “I think it was a fake,” she said. The clip went viral, breathing new life into an old conspiracy thanks to the star’s extraordinary influence.
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Social media gullibility: Challenging student’s increasing embrace of conspiracy theories

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By Sam Wineburg
| Genetic Literacy Project
Mike Evans knew something had to change. As the lead instructor for American Government 1101 at Georgia State University in 2021, Evans had watched his students over the years show up with fewer facts and more conspiracy theories. Gone were the days when students arrived on campus with dim memories of high school civics. Now they came armed with bold, often misleading beliefs shaped by hours spent each day on TikTok, YouTube and Instagram.
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Opinion: How to save Wikipedia from AI

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By Nadav Ziv, Sam Wineburg
| The Star (Malaysia) Verified
Artificial intelligence is killing Wikipedia. The volunteer-run online encyclopaedia just issued a stark warning: AI is exploiting the site’s data, siphoning off its traffic, and threatening its future. Contrary to what you were taught in middle school, Wikipedia is remarkably accurate. It’s used by doctors and professional fact-checkers. Even large language models (LLMs) and the AI products they power, such as Elon Musk’s new Wikipedia competitor “Grokipedia,” rely on the site for training data.
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