About Us
Benefit LSU’s Manship School of Mass Communication
The mission of the Manship School is to produce highly competent communicators with broad knowledge and training in the liberal arts and the media. The Manship School is dedicated to leading the study and practice of media and public affairs within an evolving technological and global society.
Our Mission
This website is a resource for students, academics and citizens to defend themselves against fake news and misinformation.
Meet the Team
Len Apcar
Len Apcar holds the Wendell Gray Switzer Jr. Endowed Chair in Media Literacy at LSU where he regularly teaches a class on how information moves through society and about fake news. He is a fellow at the Manship School’s Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs and serves on the faculty at the Salzburg Academy on Media Literacy and Global Change in Austria.
detectfakenews.com, which was created in 2018, is a curated resource guide on the developments in fake news, disinformation and foreign interference in the nation’s information flows.
His teaching interests include how people can evaluate both media sources and information so they can fully participate in our representative democracy. He has been a frequent speaker to civic and educational groups about the problem of fake news and social media.
In a nearly 40-year professional career at The New York Times and at the Wall Street Journal, he has been a reporter, web editor-in-chief, Washington editor and Asia editor. He holds an M.S. from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and a B.A. in political science from Claremont McKenna College in California.
Grayce Mores
Grayce Mores graduated from Louisiana State University in 2022 with a B.S. in microbiology and a minor in mass communication. She has worked on DetectFakeNews.com since 2019, and is interested in health and science misinformation. She is currently a Ph.D student in microbiology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. In her spare time she likes to read, cross stitch and hang out with her parrot, Darwin.
Aubrey Rademacher
Aubrey Rademacher, a recent Michigan State University graduate with a Bachelor’s in Honors Journalism, curates and produces content for LSU Manship School’s detectfakenews.com. She focuses on gathering and presenting key updates and research on fake news, ensuring the website remains a leading resource on the subject.