Here's a quick thread of three top reads on information disorder for you today, collated by the First Draft monitoring team:
A growing number of studies show that the key to fighting disinformation is to “catch” it early, teaching children essential digital literacy is imperative. Jaigris Hodson at @TheConversation discusses how critical thinking skills can be instilled early on theconversation.com/teaching-child…
Older users who have been on social media for only a few years are less likely to understand its dangers. But digital literacy organizations have had success educating older users to catch online misinformation, writes @paula_span for the @nytimes
nytimes.com/2020/09/11/hea…
Facebook has said it is taking action against posts making false claims about who started the Oregon wildfires, days after it was flagged by media organizations and authorities edition.cnn.com/2020/09/12/bus…
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