Can you spot the lies in your news feed? | Laura Smythe

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Fri 23 Oct 2026, 15:001 week ago

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Laura Smythe spent years in legacy newsrooms, and she thinks the habits journalists use to vet information should belong to all of us. Using Fyre Festival as a cautionary tale, she explains why media literacy is a vital skill in our age of deepfakes and algorithmic feeds — and describes the country that’s already found a way to start teaching it in elementary school. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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