Andrea Mowers

I completely agree with this Andrea. In general misinformation about Covid-19 and the vaccine has been circulating and continues to circulate around Twitter. I do know that Facebook has ‘flagged’ and deleted misinformation that was posted and I do believe Twitter has done the same. I do believe AI technology can help sort, filter and flag the misinformation that is put on these different platforms, especially when it comes to important information that can help save lives.

To your other question, I do think we should teach children at a younger age about media literacy. Children spend a lot of time on the Internet and are easily susceptible to learning new information. As we are older in High School, we learn how to find and use credible sources for our research, I hope that they start to do this at a younger age so that the children are aware about which sources are credible and which are not.