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Information literacy in the age of search engines
Search engines answer in seconds, so judging sources is now the hard part. What information literacy means, where it came from, and what classroom trials find.

Search engines answer in seconds, so judging sources is now the hard part. What information literacy means, where it came from, and what classroom trials find.

Media literacy comes down to five plain questions about publisher, evidence, and independent coverage. Research from 2019 found professional fact checkers judge web pages faster and better by leaving the page first.

Newsroom choices run on news values and inherited framing: a 2021 study found 69.5 percent of headlines on mouse studies dropped the mice, and a 2026 experiment tested a fix.