
Behavior
Digital Literacy Doesn’t Stop the Spread of Misinformation
Just because you can spot falsehoods doesn’t mean you won’t share them
Nathaniel Sirlin is a research assistant at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management and co-author of the paper "Digital Literacy Is Associated with More Discerning Accuracy Judgments but Not Sharing Intentions," which was published in December 2021 in the Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review.
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