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Sam Wineburg

Sam Wineburg

Sam Wineburg is professor of Education and (by courtesy) History, Stanford University.

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No, you’re not that good at detecting fake videos

By: and - November 20, 2023

Someone tracking the conflict raging in the Middle East could have seen the following two videos on social media. The first shows a little boy hovering over his father’s dead body, whimpering in Arabic, “Don’t leave me.” The second purports to show a pregnant woman with her stomach slashed open and claims to document the […]