Content-type: text/html Downes.ca ~ Stephen's Web ~ Pilot study suggests online media literacy programming reduces belief in false news in Indonesia

Stephen Downes

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I'd feel more confident if the authors were evaluating other people's learning materials, not their own. But it's still encouraging to find support for an idea that should be intuitive, that media literacy education helps people detect fake news. "This work presented a small, limited study to understand the misinformation landscape in Indonesia, and demonstrates the feasibility of conducting a larger research project of this nature."

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