PEN America Launches Election Disinformation Quiz

By John Eggerton
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Online test is part of #WhatToExpect2020 education campaign

PEN America's What to Expect From the Media
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As part of its #WhatToExpect2020 project to fight election disinformation, PEN America has launched an interactive quiz to test web surfers' knowledge of how to "spot, fact check, and stop" false information.

The quiz includes personalities--Ian Cumming, John Lithgow, and others--featured in its YouTube video on disinformation.

The PEN America Project includes "disinformation defense" workshops, regional town halls, and a webinar on "election calls, projections, and how news organizations plan to navigate the challenges of election night 2020."

PEN (which stands for Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists, Novelists) America defends free expression worldwide.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.