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Mike Caulfield: Digital Literacy Expert

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The internet contains both harmless and dangerous misinformation, and this content introduces a practical, rapid method for discerning truth from fiction online, especially crucial during health crises.

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It's no secret that the web is full of a lot of nonsense and a lot of that nonsense is relatively

harmless, whether it's fake bakes on TikTok or photoshopped images on Instagram. But some of

it is deadly serious and that has never been more apparent than now as we face this pandemic and try

to sort through a mountain of information that has dire consequences for the health of our families,

our friends, and our community. I want to show you techniques that you can use the

sort fact from fiction on the web and everything in between. Get to the truth of an issue in 30,

60, 90 seconds or less. The approach that I'm going to show differs a little bit than what

a lot of you have been taught. If you've had a media literacy course before there's a good

chance you've been told that what you need to do is look deeply at the document or webpage or

photo in front of you and think about whether that is true or whether that is false. That

is not our approach here. What we want you to do is get off that page, get off that photo,

go out onto the web and see what other people say about it. And what I hope you'll find as

we move forward is that while getting to absolute certainty is a never ending task,

getting confident enough to make the sort of decisions that you need to make is

completely within your grasp in a skill that you can learn in a very short amount of time.

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