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The Media and Democracy Project
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Non-partisan, all-volunteer civic advocacy group working to improve our media and defend our democracy. Web site: www.MediaAndDemocracyProject.Org Newsletter: tiny.cc/OurNewsletter Meetings: mobilize.us/mediademocracyproject/
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Journalists Make Choices! Third panel of guidelines: Protect Americans from disinformation! Demand that newsrooms improve their election coverage! 4/4

Journalists can defend democracy. 

Protect Americans from disinformation! 
• Avoid euphemisms that conceal and normalize extremism. 
• Explain that disinformation by MAGA is a strategy. 
• Don’t platform liars or act as stenographers for strategic MAGA lies. 
• Include a pubilic figure's history of coup participation when quoting them. 
• Inoculate Americans against a repeat of the Big Lie strategy. 
• Build public trust by explaining the newsroom decisions you make about elections. 
• Have a plan for handling deepfakes. 

We're demanding that newsrooms improve their 2024 election coverage:

url: tiny.cc/prodemocracy2024

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Non-partisan, all-volunteer civic advocacy group working to improve our media and defend our democracy. Web site: www.MediaAndDemocracyProject.Org Newsletter: tiny.cc/OurNewsletter Meetings: mobilize.us/mediademocracyproject/
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