Tess Townsend

I coordinated a grassroots community organization that promoted news literacy among k-12 students by sending reporters into classrooms as guest speakers. We conducted roughly 50 classroom visits from 2018-2021.

Facebook has proven to be a zone where campaign finance rules are difficult if not nearly impossible to enforce, at least from outside.

I tracked down the Romanian creator of one of the most ubiquitous disinformation sites during the 2016 presidential election.

A follow-up to my exclusive profile of the creator behind prolific propaganda site, Ending the Fed.

Two University of Washington professors are teaching a course to help students “think critically about the data and models that constitute evidence in the social and natural sciences."

Washington Post Editor Marty Baron says the newspaper is approaching the Donald Trump administration as it would any administration, not with open animosity.

Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing — and changing us. The New York Times says it is going to expand the availability of online comments from 10 percent of articles to 80 percent by the end of the year, without adding more moderators to its staff. How are they going to do this? With a machine-learning algorithm, of course. The Times today is rolling out a new structure of comment moderation using software from Google called Perspective, developed by the company’s incub