Media literacy can help you tell the difference between real and false news. Zbynek Pospisil/iStock via Getty Images Plus November 3, 2022 Understanding how news works can short‑circuit the connection between social media use and vaccine hesitancy Muhammad E. Rasul, University of California, Davis; Jaeho Cho, University of California, Davis, and Saifuddin Ahmed, Nanyang Technological University Researchers identified a connection between low levels of media literacy and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in people who consume their news via social media.
