Katie Sanders

2 days ago | businessinsider.com | Sam Fellman |Katie Sanders |Mara Storey |Henry Blodget

The M4 Sherman was the backbone of the Allied armored force during World War II. Weighing roughly 40 tons, it was fast, reliable, and built by the thousands. Sherman tanks proved key in helping the Allies break through German defenses at Utah and Omaha Beaches. Some were equipped with a bulldozer blade on the front that could cut through the defenses on the beach — and that would later function as hedgecutters used to break through wall-like hedges throughout Normandy.

1 month ago | statesman.com | Katie Sanders

Pope Francis defended truth as misinformation trailed himKatie Sanders |  PolitiFact.comPope Francis, who died Monday at age 88, was an unlikely chronicler of the world’s reckoning with false information online.  Francis outlined the societal harms of misinformation in 2018, tracing the origin of false news to the Garden of Eden "snake tactics" that led to the original sin.

1 month ago | poynter.org | Katie Sanders

Pope Francis, who died Monday at age 88, was an unlikely chronicler of the world’s reckoning with false information online. Francis outlined the societal harms of misinformation in 2018, tracing the origin of false news to the Garden of Eden “snake tactics” that led to the original sin. “There is no such thing as harmless disinformation; on the contrary, trusting in falsehood can have dire consequences,” he wrote Jan. 24, 2018, for World Communications Day.

1 month ago | poynter.org | Katie Sanders

Katie Sanders is the editor-in-chief of PolitiFact at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies. Katie oversees PolitiFact’s nonprofit fact-checking newsroom and its Pulitzer Prize-winning website. She also regularly teaches fact-checking techniques to journalists, social media influencers and students from around the world. She currently serves as president of the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors. Katie is a graduate of the University of Florida, where she majored in English and journalism.

1 month ago | politifact.com | Katie Sanders

Pope Francis, who died Monday at age 88, was an unlikely chronicler of the world’s reckoning with false information online.  Francis outlined the societal harms of misinformation in 2018, tracing the origin of false news to the Garden of Eden "snake tactics" that led to the original sin. "There is no such thing as harmless disinformation; on the contrary, trusting in falsehood can have dire consequences," he wrote Jan. 24, 2018, for World Communications Day.