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Avantika talks 'Tarot' and that racist 'Tangled' backlash: 'Media literacy is a dying art'
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoHeading into "Mean Girls," Avantika Vandanapu was bracing for the worst. "I had mentally prepared...
Michigan Builds Website of Resources to Teach Media Literacy
Government Technology· 2 days agoMost students have probably heard the term “fake news” by now, but do they really know what it means? A collaboration between Western Michigan University (WMU), the Kalamazoo Valley Museum and ...
The vocabulary of disinformation
The Economist· 23 hours agoTHE WORDS disinformation and misinformation are often used interchangeably. Disinformation is when false information is spread with the intent to...
How 'blue comments' turned the TikTok algorithm into a protest tool
Mashable· 2 days agoYou only meant to watch a video of an influencer sharing a funny story, but a puzzling collection of...
How to stop students from making deepfakes of each other
Mashable· 3 days agoThere is no official tally of how many students have become victims of explicit deepfakes, but their...
Editing photos for social media linked to pursuing cosmetic procedures, new BU research shows
GBH News· 2 days agoNew research from Boston University’s Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine has found something many have suspected to be true: Social media and photo-editing applications are linked to an ...
Will New Zealand's school phone ban work? Let's see what it does for students' curiosity
Phys.org· 2 days agoAnecdotally, schools that implemented the ban ahead of the deadline have reported positive changes in attention and learning. The head girl of Hornby High School in Christchurch said the grounds ...
Germany's far-right AfD party is finding success on TikTok — as its popularity among young voters...
NBC Miami· 4 days agoThe youth vote for Germany's far-right party, the AfD is growing ahead of key elections. A study...
'We continued to lose freedoms' | Planned Parenthood speaks on abortion care after Tennessee's 2024...
WBIR-TV Knoxville· 4 days agoOne of the major topics was access to abortion care, and lawmakers passed bills further restricting...