In Taking Action Together: “News Literacy & Misinformation”, John Silva from the News Literacy Project guides you through the tricky landscape of online falsehoods by showing how misleading content is created, propagated, and consumed. You’ll gain the tools to better evaluate what you see, hear, and share in today’s information ecosystem.

Three things you will learn:

1. How you can spot different kinds of misleading, inaccurate, or false information (e.g. deepfakes, misquotations, selective editing).

2. Why you should pay attention to who is spreading a claim — their background, incentives, and credibility matter.

3. Concrete strategies you can use to assess motives behind misinformation and decide whether or not to share it responsibly.