Can You Tell Fake News From Real? Study Finds Students Have 'Dismaying' Inability : The Two-Way : NPR | ED 262 Research, Reference & Resource Skills | Scoop.it
If the children are the future, the future might be very ill-informed.

That's one implication of a new study from Stanford researchers that evaluated students' ability to assess information sources and described the results as "dismaying," "bleak" and "[a] threat to democracy."

As content creators and social media platforms grapple with the fake news crisis, the study highlights the other side of the equation: What it looks like when readers are duped.

Via Elizabeth E Charles