Google-backed program, mediawise, is trying to teach teens, and soon beyond, how to spot fake news.
Teens, typically the crest of any cultural trend, are struggling to keep up with the rise of “fake news” and its proliferation through all of the social platforms they essentially exist on.
It’s not difficult to see why young people are confused about what comes across their various feeds, if they actually consider it at all. Now, one basically needs to understand journalistic standards and the basics of professional fact-checking to really know what kind of information is fake, especially at a glance, the time frame in which social media operates.
But that’s not to say teens aren’t interested in getting facts around issues and understanding the news of the day. They just need it to be where they already are. “Stay Tuned” did an entire series around the midterm elections based on crowdsourced questions, one of the most common of which was “What are the midterms?” It’s hard to imagine an “adult” news show taking that question seriously, much less dedicating an entire segment to it. But maybe it should, considering not only the pace of news today, but that only 49 percent of the eligible U.S. voted in the midterms, which is still, shockingly, the highest rate in a century.
Something else that’s coming along is an expansion of the program. Byron holds that starting with a younger age group was sound, since this is the generation that’s growing up on social media and likely seeing the most misinformation. But she admits to being asked constantly why there isn’t a MediaWise program for seniors, a group that’s just as susceptible, if not more so, to malicious misinformation online.
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