Teens learn a new conspiracy theory every week on social media yet most schools aren’t teaching media literacy

How often do you come in contact with a conspiracy theory? Maybe on occasion, when you flip through TV channels and land on an episode of “Ancient Aliens.” Or perhaps when a friend from high school shares a questionable meme on Facebook. How confident are you in your ability to tell fact from fiction? If you’re a teen, you could be exposed to conspiracy theories and a host of other pieces of misinformation as frequently as every day while scrolling through your social media feeds. That’s according to a new study by the News Literacy Project, which also found that teens struggle with identifying false information online.