A WhatsApp course taught older Spaniards to spot misinformation. New research suggests it worked (to an extent) | Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

Journalists and researchers in Spain teamed up to trial a course to teach older generations how to recognise misinformation online. The course was delivered on WhatsApp, an app that 27% use for news in Spain. A group of academic researchers studied whether the course helped the people who took it. According to their findings, to an extent, it did.US-based initiative MediaWise and Spanish news outlet Newtral built and delivered the course to a Spanish audience. Then researchers from the University of Navarra studied the impact of the course in a sample group of over-50s in Spain. They found that those who took the course were more successful in identifying the news as true or false than the members of a control group.

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