media literacy

Kelsey Russell has grown a following online by reading news articles from print publications.

She reads the newspaper on TikTok — and her videos are going viral

5:00am March 26, 2024

by Jordan-Marie Smith

Newspapers are losing the battle against smartphones as the place to learn the news, but one woman has found a way to bridge the divide and bring the print to the people.

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High school students taking part in the University of Washington's annual MisInfo Day earlier this month. They are looking at pictures of faces to tell whether the images were created with generative AI tools or authentic.

AI images and conspiracy theories are driving a push for media literacy education

12:38pm March 21, 2024

by Kim Malcolm

One of the nation's best-known media literacy events for high school students is expanding as demand grows for skills to identify deepfake images and online conspiracy theories.

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Students attend a Ukrainian language and literature lesson at a school in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk in 2016. In 2018, students in four cities across Ukraine received training to help them identify disinformation, propaganda and hate speech.

Students In Ukraine Learn How To Spot Fake Stories, Propaganda And Hate Speech

6:25pm March 22, 2019

by Sasha Ingber

A new report says students who received media literacy training were 18 percent better at identifying false reports than students without the lessons. Girls gained more knowledge than boys.

"When we started on the game, fake news, the term that we know now, wasn't even in the vernacular."

To Test Your Fake News Judgment, Play This Game

9:17am July 03, 2017

by Tennessee Watson

The journalist who thought up this game says she saw the need before "fake news" was even in the vernacular.