McKerrell, Niklas (2017) How young people are coping with ‘fake news’. POLIS: journalism and society at the LSE (13 Apr 2017). Website.
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Abstract
How ‘literate’ are young people when it comes to getting their news on social media? Niklas McKerrell is a sixth-form student who attended a recent Polis workshop with Facebook looking at ‘news literacy’. Here are his views on how his generation is coping with ‘fake news’ and the struggle to find reliable information online.
| Item Type: | Online resource (Website) | 
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| Official URL: | http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/ | 
| Additional Information: | © 2017 The Author(s) | 
| Divisions: | Media and Communications | 
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HE Transportation and Communications H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain L Education > L Education (General) | 
| Date Deposited: | 11 May 2017 11:00 | 
| Last Modified: | 10 Sep 2025 10:25 | 
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/76558 | 
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