Education and an openness to information play a key role in our ability to assess the truth from falsehoods in the complex world of misinformation (fake news) and disinformation (propaganda).
In the context of an election, high-quality education can act as a bulwark against electoral choices based on “noisy” and biased information, endowing voters with a better ability to identify fake news and avoid acting on it, studies have shown. A well-educated population is better able to hold its government to account.
Education is an open-ended…
