Building civic resilience with digital verification skills: media literacy lessons from Lithuania

ENLooking at different categories across the national population, the most sig- nificant differences are seen in relationship to age, education, and social status. Younger and more educated audiences tend to be more active users of online news channels with more diversity in their general media repertoires, that include TV and radio, social networks, news portals, official information sites, international news sources and audiovisual media platforms. As digital natives, they are also more critical about the power of information manipulations and the scope of disinformation in the online media environment. However, even if these groups of people demonstrate higher confidence in their abilities to dis- cern truth and identify lies, their resilience to information disruptions is limited and their capabilities (e.g. debunking skills, source verification techniques) are inadequate to prevent spread of malicious content. To sum up, the urgency of media and information literacy (MIL) becoming a strategic guideline for all communication agents, not just for media and edu- cation sectors, remains a matter of high concern in Lithuania.

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