Teach Today's Kids to Spot Tomorrow's Fake News
Giving young minds the tools to assess the credibility of information isn't as hard as it seems.
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One piece of news that Americans seem to agree on is that we live in an age of fake news. Views vary, however, on how to combat the problem.
Here's a good place to start: in school and at a young age. Research shows that giving children the intellectual tools to assess the credibility of information is neither as hard nor as amorphous as it might seem.