Real infodemic: Universities are failing to teach students how to identify misinformation online.
THE 2020 election has once again demonstrated how easy it is to spread misinformation online. And universities across the United States are failing in teaching students how to identify it.
Many colleges offer students guides to evaluate the trustworthiness of websites. But too many of them base their advice on a report from 1998. That’s nine years before the first iPhone, and 18 years before Russian interference sparked an urgent discussion on how we interpret information online.
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