What Fact-Checkers Know About Media Literacy—and Students Should, Too


What Fact-Checkers Know About Media Literacy—and Students Should, Too

By Youki Terada 
edutopia.org
7 min



Professional fact-checkers use a strategy that’s at odds with how we usually teach information literacy. Here’s how to pass it on to your students.


It’s news that’s all too real: We’re drowning in a stream of misinformation. The problem is so acute that the World Health Organization recently declared it an infodemic—a deliberate effort to spread misinformation, resulting in polarized public debate and amplified hate speech that threatens “long-term prospects for advancing democracy, human rights, and social cohesion,” the organization warned in a 2020 release.

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