"Does media literacy help identification of fake news? Information literacy helps, but other literacies don’t."

 In his recently published article Assistant Professor of Communication Mo Jang investigated whether media literacy is helpful in combatting fake news. This piece is featured in the special issue "fake news" of the journal, American Behavioral Scientist. The findings suggest that among various literacies (media literacy, information literacy, digital literacy, and news literacy), information literacy is significantly useful in recognizing fake news.  https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764219869406