Social Media Literacy Op-ed by our president!

Check out this Scientific American op-ed on the "fake news" epidemic written by the current president of our chapter, Prateek Puri. The piece describes the effect online political misinformation has had on our democracy as well as the reasons for its popularity. In addition, it suggests that a potential remedy to the problem may be offering media literacy courses during early education to teach our youth how to evaluate news information critically.