Student Journalists Face Storm of Campus Protest Disinformation | WIRED
As campus protests reached new peaks last week, student newspapers like the Columbia Spectator at Columbia University were not only tasked with covering their peers but also the false and alarming narratives being spun up about and around them…
“I think the way that people saw the protest was completely different from how we observed it on campus. It wasn’t as rowdy as had been depicted. It was actually quite peaceful,” says Katrina Ventura, a student at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism.