unesco media literacy brief

UNESCO launches issue brief on Media and Information Literacy to counter hate speech in the digital age — Photo by Ahmed akac

Experts Warn: Media Literacy And Information Literacy Undercut NGOs

Media literacy and information literacy are essential tools that stop NGOs from being undercut by misinformation, and UNESCO reports that 78 percent of social-media users cannot distinguish fake from real news. In the wake of the COVID-19 school closures, NGOs are urged to adopt UNESCO’s media-literacy brief to protect