Conversation Canada: Fact-checking residential school denialists and debunking ‘mass grave hoax’

Sean Carleton, Assistant Professor, Departments of History and Indigenous Studies, and Reid Gerbrandt, a MA Student, in the Department of Sociology and Criminology decided to fact-check residential school denialists and debunk their ‘mass grave hoax’ theory. They investigated claims of a media conspiracy and fact-checked them against evidence.

What did Canadian news outlets actually report after the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation made their public announcements about their search for missing children?

For the full story, read the original, first published online on The Conversation.