But, as I interact with others who may not be as cautious, I understand how crucial media literacy education becomes. The ...

The Show Me State is poised to let a handful of public schools figure out the dos and don’ts of teaching digital media literacy. Missouri state Legislature House and Senate bills calling for a “media ...

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 ...

Last month, Meta, which owns Instagram and Facebook, announced that it would end its fact-checking program in the U.S., leaving billions of users — many of whom are adolescents — to figure out for ...

Another concern around social media is how algorithms create echo chambers and feedback loops, by design. Shapiro partly blamed social media companies, saying he has “spoken to a number of the ...

Penn State experts Prof. Matt Jordan and Prof. Kelley Cotter discuss media literacy. Host Bill Hallman is joined by Penn State experts Prof. Matt Jordan and Prof. Kelley Cotter as they discuss what ...

Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced an initiative to "combat online hate" ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday last week after alarming surges in hate against Jews, Muslims and Arabs ...

Secondary educators in the San Francisco Bay Area are invited to join the KQED Media Literacy Academy, a new professional learning cohort focused on integrating youth media in the classroom to boost ...

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 ...