Study: Digital literacy doesn’t stop the spread of misinformation | MIT Sloan

We are living through an epidemic of mistrust, particularly here in the United States. Trust in social media and traditional media is at an all-time low. Trust in the U.S. federal government to handle problems is at a near-record low. Trust in the U.S.’s major institutions is within 2 percentage points of the all-time low. The consequences are prof... See more

It’s not that misinformation doesn’t exist, or that it hasn’t had indirect effects, especially when it creates perverse incentives for the mainstream media to cover stories circulating online ... But, at least so far, very few Americans seem to suffer from consistent exposure to fake news—“probably less than two per cent of Twitter users, maybe few... See more

digital literacy is associated with a set of competences—namely, information literacy, information-processing, critical thinking, problem solving, and online safety—and define digital literacy as the ability to access and select digital information, process and critically evaluate digital information, and use digital information effectively in a mo... See more

n this respect, Law et al. (2018) draw attention to the inclusive and dimensional nature of digital literacy, encompassing computer literacy, ICT literacy, media literacy, and information literacy, and define digital literacy as the ability to access, manage, understand, integrate, communicate, evaluate, and create information safely and appropriat... See more