Helen Lee Bouygues in the Hechinger Report
Young people are tomorrow’s news creators and news consumers, and will soon make future-shaping decisions based on what they believe to be true. High school students are also teenagers, though, and while they may be technologically savvy, they are often psychologically unsophisticated and eager to be part of a cause or group — making them easy marks for the purveyors of misinformation. Newseum has created an in-person and online course for fighting fake news – developed for teenagers, by teenagers.