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Stories for Grades 3 and Up
| Story | Media | Publication | Content Warnings |
| “A Crisis of Connectivity: Internet Access in Rural PA” by Jordan Wolman | Photo, Text | WLVR: Lehigh Valley Public Media | N/A |
Stories for Grades 6 and Up
| Story | Media | Publication | Content Warnings |
| “AI-Powered Productivity Tools That Can Make Life Harder” by Joanna S. Kao | Video, Text | Financial Times | N/A |
| “How Your Data Ends Up in AI Training Sets” by Niamh McIntyre | Text | The Bureau for Investigative Journalism | N/A |
| “People in Parts of Myanmar Are Living Under the World's Longest Internet Shutdown. It's Putting Lives in Danger” by Kyaw Hlaing | Text | TIME | N/A |
| “Tracked and Traced: How Thousands of American Muslims Ended up on the Terrorist Watch List” by Nargis Rahman and David Leins | Audio, Text | WDET | N/A |
| “Tech Giants Made a Home in Ghana. Now They’re Quiet on Its Anti-LGBTQ+ Bill.” by Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu | Photo, Text | protocol | N/A |
| “Social Media: A Double-Edged Sword for the Feminist Movement” by Jacqueline Kamei | Photo, Text | Pulitzer Center | Discussion of body image and eating disorders |
Stories for Grades 9 and Up
| Story | Media | Publication | Content Warnings |
| “The Platform Proletariat: How Underpaid Brazilian Workers Train AI” by Tatiana Dias and Sofia Schurig | Video, Text | The Intercept Brasil | N/A |
| “Researchers Say an AI-Powered Transcription Tool Used in Hospitals Invents Things No One Ever Said” by Garance Burke and Hilke Schellmann | Text | The Associated Press | N/A |
| “Can an AI Companion Really Care?” by Patricia Clarke and Matt Russell | Audio, Text | Tortoise | Discussion of suicide and mental health crises |
| “The Black Box” by Arijit Douglas Sen and Derêka Bennett | Video, Photo, Text | The Dallas Morning News | Discussion of suicide and mental health crises, mass shootings, and police violence |
| “The Twisted Eye in the Sky Over Buenos Aires” by Karen Naundorf and Sarah Pabst | Photo, Text | WIRED | N/A |
| “In Fight for Equal Rights, Queer Filipinos Build Communities on Social Media” by Don Kevin Hapal | Photo, Text | Rappler | N/A |
| “Essay: Is the Next Misinformation Crisis Fear-Based and Local?” by Lam Thuy Vo | Text | Just Tech | N/A |
| “The Power of Social Media in Cameroon's Anglophone Crisis” by Zane Irwin | Photo, Text | Pulitzer Center | N/A |
| “How an Algorithm Denied Food to Thousands of Poor in India’s Telangana” by Tapasya, Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava, and Divij Joshi | Video, Photo, Text | Al Jazeera | N/A |
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