Beneath all “fake news,” misinformation, disinformation, digital falsehoods and foreign influence lies society’s failure to teach its citizenry information literacy: how to think critically about the deluge of information that confronts them in our modern digital age.
that an anonymous Twitter account claiming to be a secret society “resisting” their government was everything it claimed to be without the slightest bit of verification? For all our societal chuckling about those who fall for “Nigerian prince” email scams, all it took was a couple of anonymous Twitter accounts claiming to be fellow researchers to start freelyfrom the nation’s most respected researchers who never stopped to ask whether any of this seemed in the slightest bit suspicious.
Technical literacy is a powerful and important skill in our increasingly technology-driven society but is not the same as information literacy and will not help in the war against “fake news.” Societies must teach their children from a young age how to perform research, understand sourcing, triangulate information, triage contested narratives and recognize the importance of where information comes from, not just what it says.
Instead, today’s grand challenge of combating “fake news,” misinformation, disinformation, digital falsehoods and foreign influence requires a very human solution. It requires teaching society’s citizenry the basics of information literacy and how to think about the information they consume.
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