Are adolescents with stronger literacy skills more resistant to fake news? A new paper by Mobarak Hossain and Jason Jabbari finds a significant positive association between reading achievement and resistance to misinformation. buff.ly/yV0IxYY
‘Reading between the lies’: Reading achievement, socioeconomic inequality, and adolescents' resistance to misinformation
This study examines adolescents’ resistance to misinformation across 49 countries, using novel measures from the 2022 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) dataset.
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