Inoculating Citizens Against Fake News: Teaching News Consumers Digital Literacy Strategies

• In Event: Fake News, Misinformation, and Disinformation

Brief Overview

This study examines the efficacy of digital literacy campaigns, demonstrating that some campaigns improve subjects’ ability to identify fake news more than others but all increase subjects’ confidence in their evaluations of a news story's accuracy.

Author

• Leslie Caughell, Virginia Wesleyan University