Just because you can spot falsehoods doesn’t mean you won’t share them
There has been tremendous concern recently over misinformation on social media. It was a pervasive topic during the 2020 U.S. presidential election, continues to be an issue during the COVID-19 pandemic and plays an important part in Russian propaganda efforts in the war on Ukraine. This concern is plenty justified, as the consequences of believing false information are arguably shaping the future of nations and greatly affecting our individual and collective health.
To begin, we needed to establish clarity on what “digital literacy” means in this context. The term is used in many different ways, and the first step to studying it rigorously was to define it. We landed on two definitions: Digital literacy is the possession of basic digital skills required to effectively find information online, such as using the Internet to answer questions like “What is the capital city of Malawi?” or “What is the only U.S.
When we looked at the connection between digital literacy and the willingness to share false information with others through social media, however, the results were different. People who were more digitally literate were just as likely to say they’d share false articles as people who lacked digital literacy. Like the first finding, the connection between digital literacy and sharing false news was not affected by political party affiliation or whether the topic was politics or the pandemic.
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