
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


From politics to COVID-19, we have a big problem with false information on the internet. There’s been a lot of discussion about what platforms like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube can do to stop it from spreading, or if the government should step in to regulate those spaces. But there’s been less focus on the skills users need to sort through it all, skills that aren’t necessarily taught, at least in a formal way, in the U.S. education system. Meghan McCarty Carino speaks with Helen Lee Bouygues, who is trying to change that. She’s the founder and president of the Reboot Foundation, which teaches critical thinking skills to combat fake news. She says we’re just not inclined to second-guess information when it’s flooding our social media feeds.
By Marketplace4.5
12561,256 ratings
From politics to COVID-19, we have a big problem with false information on the internet. There’s been a lot of discussion about what platforms like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube can do to stop it from spreading, or if the government should step in to regulate those spaces. But there’s been less focus on the skills users need to sort through it all, skills that aren’t necessarily taught, at least in a formal way, in the U.S. education system. Meghan McCarty Carino speaks with Helen Lee Bouygues, who is trying to change that. She’s the founder and president of the Reboot Foundation, which teaches critical thinking skills to combat fake news. She says we’re just not inclined to second-guess information when it’s flooding our social media feeds.

32,248 Listeners

30,628 Listeners

8,796 Listeners

935 Listeners

1,388 Listeners

1,647 Listeners

2,177 Listeners

5,485 Listeners

113,294 Listeners

56,982 Listeners

9,554 Listeners

10,320 Listeners

3,618 Listeners

6,110 Listeners

6,591 Listeners

6,461 Listeners

163 Listeners

2,990 Listeners

154 Listeners

1,378 Listeners

91 Listeners