Pushing back against the surge of misinformation online, California will now require all K-12 students to learn media literacy skills — such as recognizing fake news and thinking critically about what they encounter on the internet.
Gov. Gavin Newsom last month signed Assembly Bill 873, which requires the state to add media literacy to curriculum frameworks for English language arts, science, math and history-social studies, rolling out gradually beginning next year. Instead of a stand-alone class, the topic will be woven into existing classes and lessons throughout the school year.
‘But who decides what’s fake news?!,’ insist people who think reality is based on ‘who decides.’
In California everything from the extreme right will be fake news
On Earth everything from the extreme right is fake news. Fascists lie. Calling them on it is not bias; it’s reality.