Club Picks:

For some context on the Meta/News Media Bargaining Code saga, here’s an article penned by The Conversation editor Misha Ketchell on how it all reminds him of the fable of the scorpion and the frog.

This is a great Forbes article on California’s introduction of mandatory media literacy education at every grade level last year. It includes the sobering stat that on Twitter/X, fake news stories are 70% more likely to be retweeted than real ones.

By virtue of its proximity to Russia, Finland has been inoculating its population against misinformation for almost 2 decades. As this article explains, education starts with kids at primary school.