Voting can be complicated, especially if it’s your first time. Are you properly registered? What’s up with mail-in voting? And perhaps most importantly, how do you know that you’re voting based on facts, not fiction?
This free fact-checking course from the MediaWise Voter Project (#MVP2020) will help you earn that “I Voted” sticker. Thanks to instructional videos from #MVP2020 friends like John Green, online sleuthing challenges, and lessons in being a social media detective, you will feel more confident and empowered casting your vote in 2020.
Here’s how it works:
This is a four-part course that dives deep into all things fact-checking. Each part takes about one hour and ends in a quiz that advances you to the next level. Once you complete all four levels, you will earn a MediaWise Voter Project Fact-Checking Certificate to prove to everyone you are MediaWise and know how to find accurate information.
- Level 1: Fact-checking 101 for first-time voters
- Level 2: All about that research
- Level 3: Follow that coin!
- Level 4: Deepfakes, bots and seeing the future
Schedule
Coming October 2020
Who should take this course?
This program was designed for the first-time voter, ages 18-22 years old, and is recommended for high school and college students and anyone else who is heading to cast their vote for the first time in November.
Instructors
![amahadevan_1800_sq Alex Mahadevan](https://www.poynter.org/wp-content/themes/elumine/assets/images/placeholder.png)
Alex Mahadevan
Senior Multimedia Reporter
MediaWise
![Heaven Taylor-Wynn Heaven Taylor-Wynn](https://www.poynter.org/wp-content/themes/elumine/assets/images/placeholder.png)
Heaven Taylor-Wynn
Multimedia Reporter
MediaWise
![Alexa Volland Alexa Volland](https://www.poynter.org/wp-content/themes/elumine/assets/images/placeholder.png)
Alexa Volland
Multimedia Reporter
MediaWise
Training sponsor
This MediaWise Voter Project Fact-Checking Certificate is made available tuition-free to the first 1,333 students thanks to generous support from:
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