Associate Director, Social Media Lab Stanford University
Older adults, communities of color, and rural populations in the U.S. are disproportionately affected by misinformation. This amplifies some of the biggest problems facing America today: intensifying polarization, promoting vaccine hesitancy, and undermining faith in democratic institutions.
Poynter Institute’s MediaWise in collaboration with the American Library Association (ALA) Public Programs Office and Stanford Social Media Lab through support from Stanford Impact Labs and the Empowering Diverse Digital Citizens Lab, is creating a digital toolkit that can be used by librarians across the country to teach digital media literacy to adults in their communities.
Created with support from an advisory board of librarians from across the country, the toolkit will empower all librarians to respond to adult patrons who face misinformation in their day-to-day lives.
Finding credible information is a vital part of having an informed future citizenry and a healthy democracy. The Be MediaWise: The Misinformation Resilience Toolkit program aims to equip diverse Americans with the skills and resources they need to be resilient to misinformation.
Learning Objectives:
Describe strategies professional fact-checkers use to avoid sharing misinformation.
Use research-based approaches to counteracting misinformation.
Integrate the “Be MediaWise: The Misinformation Resilience Toolkit” in your library.