For Generation Z, born between 1997 and 2012, social media especially YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat has become their source of information about the world, eclipsing traditional news outlets. In a survey of more than 1, 000 young people ages 13 to 18, 8 in 10 said they encounter conspiracy theories in their social media feeds each week, yet only 39% reported receiving instruction in evaluating the claims they saw there. The Civic Online Reasoning program was built to address this gap. The post Teaching Fact-Checking to College Students Blasted By Misinformation appeared first on FlaglerLive.