The concept of fake news hit the headlines during the US presidential election in 2016, when news stories with little or no basis in fact spread like wildfire on social media.
The NLT study – entitled Fake News and Critical Literacy: An evidence review and written by Irene Picton and Anne Teravainen – says that as youngsters receive and process information from an increasingly wide variety of sources they need to develop the skills to spot fake news.
They need to be able to recognise the difference between fact and opinion, understand how authors use language to influence readers, and learn how to make reasoned arguments.
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