YouTube hopes to make people more digitally media literate through a new partnership with the Poynter that offers access to training materials and informational resources designed to highlight the dangers and risks of online content.

New availability: Full course on media literacy "Hit Pause Media Literacy Curriculum"- 11 lessons, each running around 30-45 minutes in length, along with full documentation to assist students in absorbing the key learnings from each.
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Along with all the enriching opportunities that the internet affords, one of the real challenges with youth online media consumption is the potential for exposure to misinformation. This curriculum, developed by Poynter's MediaWise, in partnership with YouTube, breaks big media literacy topics and ideas into bite-sized pieces to help teens actively and knowledgeably use the internet, specifically by giving them the skills to discern fact from fiction and the confidence to share information responsibly.

Where the focus is teen users, though, the lessons the book will teach are valuable to anyone who uses the internet: how to spot misinformation, how to trace sources, how to avoid echo chambers, and much more.

There's even an added focus on AI content, and methods to fact-check questionable AI creations.
The program was designed by media literacy experts, to include representatives from MediaSmarts (Canada), Mythos Labs (USA/India), and the Parent Zone (U.K.), ensuring the materials are easily adaptable for other cultures and languages.

This is a continuation of YouTube's "Hit Pause" initiative, which it first launched back in 2023.
That project's goal is to educate teens about the dangers of exposure online and misinformation, but again, the lessons taught apply to any user of the internet.

It's a good initiative that will better equip educators with resources to help clear misinformation and disinformation pushes, meant to influence thought patterns with false and untrue reports.
Which, really, should already be on the educational curriculum in all regions. In fact, Finland has recently included detection of misinformation as a core element in its education syllabus for everyone in that country, which helped that nation to rank at the top of global rankings concerning overall resilience to the impact of fake news.

The data clearly shows this can be very effective in breaking down the power of bad actors, and hence, this must become a critical lesson for all teachers and learners.