State Department Memo: Push ‘Media Literacy’ to Weaken ‘Demand Side’ Of Disinformation

SUMMARY A 2022 memo prepared for the State Department advises rolling out “media literacy” and “digital literacy” lessons in schools to combat disinformation, misinformation, and hate speech. The report shows that children’s online safety was not the original motivation of the US federal government’s push for media and digital literacy curricula — it was the…