These kids are standing up to fake news

One of the animating principles for Crinkling News is to instil children with a sense of media literacy — absent in the current age of media saturation.

A Stanford study, tabled by Crinkling News founder and editor Saffron Howden at the Senate Select Committee for Public Interest Journalism, found that children uniformly struggled with basic reasoning tasks: identifying whether a news item was an advertisement, or working out whether a given tweet might contain underlying bias.

Across the board, children lacked capacity to correctly make or justify their decisions. If asked to describe their results in one word, the Stanford group said, that word would be "bleak".

To Howden, this proves the need for a venture like Crinkling.
"Quality journalism, produced especially for children, can play a big part in addressing this problem."