In a push-back against people who can’t tell a real news source from an amphetamine-laden hamster with a Tumblr blog, San Francisco public radio station KQED this week announced it is launching a free ...

Starting this year, California is making it a priority for public school students from kindergarten through high school to take media literacy courses, so they can spot factual news from fiction. San ...

Media literacy has become crucial as we surf the world full of saturated information. People are constantly bombarding us with new information in many different ways, including news, ads and 24/7 ...

The average teenager spends more than three hours a day watching TV, but only 43 minutes reading, according to a study by the Kaiser Family Foundation, data which suggests that as important as English ...

MediaWise, the Poynter Institute’s digital media literacy initiative, is expanding its international reach to Spanish-speaking Latin America. One year after developing WhatsApp-based media literacy ...

Children and adults alike get bombarded with questionable information every day, whether it’s fake TikTok videos on the war in Ukraine, targeted ads on Facebook, or disinformation on climate change on ...

As dozens of Cupertino high schoolers strolled into class one January morning they were met with an image projected on the board — Donald Trump praying alone in a church. “Is there anything strange ...

Beginning next year, California’s public school students will be required to take media literacy courses that will help them identify fake news posted online while also being able to tell the ...

The global market intelligence firm International Data Corporation estimated in 2024 that more data had been created in the three preceding years than in all of history before that. With this trend ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — With a lot of information on the internet, there is a tendency for users to get burnt out. Bakersfield College is offering a course that can help navigate digital spaces.

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The Instagram headline was pithy and alarming: “Head of Pfizer Research: Covid Vaccine is Female Sterilization.” And the report, from a murky source, could have had real-world consequences, coming in ...