Zachary Reese is a creative technologist at the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. Holding a BFA in New Media and having worked as one of the early practitioners of generative art in the 1990s, he now oversees digital innovation projects, such as the recent integration of AI tooling into the Policy Center’s workflows. His work applies technology to improve public discourse and strengthen research: he develops experimental stimuli for studies, identifies and analyzes online misinformation, tracks cultural trends, and directs the creative vision and technical execution of web and data experiences for APPC initiatives such as FactCheck.org, Annenberg Classroom, and the Civics Renewal Network. By combining creative practice with advanced technical insight, he contributes to understanding how media shapes contemporary society.
As the holidays approach, with their inevitable dinner-table debates among friends and extended family, FlackCheck.org has released a short video that can help people sort fact from fiction when considering email and viral social-media claims. In “Spotting Bogus Claims,” FlackCheck.org, the political literacy site, runs down seven key characteristics of bogus email claims. The three-minute
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