Media Literacy
How news and media are produced, and what that means for the way you read them.
A free public education initiative from ARAC International
Learn how information works, and how to evaluate it
THINK helps people understand how information works, evaluate what they encounter online, recognize manipulation and misinformation, and make better-informed decisions.
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We do not tell you what to think. We help you think about information.
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Five subject areas, each with an introduction, lessons, practice exercises, and resources you can print and use.
Digital Literacy
How platforms, feeds, and search results decide what reaches you in the first place.
Critical Thinking
Separating what is observed, what is inferred, what is assumed, and how confident to be.
AI Literacy
What changes, and what does not, when content is produced or altered by AI systems.
Information Manipulation
The recurring techniques used to mislead audiences, and how to name them.
Practice
Try the Think Lab
Short exercises with fictional scenarios. You choose a response, then read why it is stronger or weaker. Nothing is scored and nothing is stored.
Think Lab
What Would Change Your Mind?
Practice naming the specific observation that would reduce your confidence, which is the fastest route out of a stuck disagreement.
Think Lab
Evaluate a Source
Practice lateral reading on a fictional organization: what to do first, and how a funding finding should change your reading.
Think Lab
Analyze a Headline
Practice reading three headlines for what they establish, what they imply, and what they leave for the article to prove.
Latest reports and articles
Longer analysis and practical explainers, with sources listed so you can check them.
Toolkit resource
A Community Discussion Guide for Evaluating Claims
A ninety-minute facilitation guide for running a claim-evaluation discussion in a library, congregation, or community group without it becoming an argument.
Report
What the Evidence Supports in Community Media Literacy Programming
A short evidence review for libraries, schools, and community organizations planning free media literacy sessions, with confidence levels attached to each finding.
Article
How Confident Should You Be?
Confidence language, what it should be based on, and how to say what you believe in a way that can be checked later.
Free to use
Featured toolkit resources
Checklists, worksheets, and facilitation guides. Every one has a printer-friendly page.
Toolkit resource
A Community Discussion Guide for Evaluating Claims
A ninety-minute facilitation guide for running a claim-evaluation discussion in a library, congregation, or community group without it becoming an argument.
Toolkit resource
AI Content Verification Checklist
What to check when content may have been generated or altered by an AI system, organized around provenance rather than visual artefacts.
Toolkit resource
Source Evaluation Worksheet: Lateral Reading in Five Fields
A structured worksheet for evaluating an unfamiliar publisher in about five minutes, with space to record what you found and what you still do not know.
For your community
Session plans, workshop outlines, and lesson plans for the places where people already gather.
Libraries
Public and academic library staff running free programming.
Schools and educators
Teachers and school staff working with students.
Nonprofits and community groups
Organizations serving members and neighbours directly.
Faith communities
Congregations and faith-based organizations.
Youth groups
After-school, mentoring, and youth leadership programs.
Step by step
Digital Navigator
A seven-step process to run before you trust, act on, or share something. It works on a news story, a forwarded message, an image, or a chatbot answer, and it takes a few minutes.
How we work
Nonpartisan by method
We analyze claims, evidence, context, and language the same way regardless of who is speaking. We do not tell you which conclusions to reach, and we do not treat ordinary disagreement as misinformation.
Evidence you can check
Substantive claims carry numbered citations that link to the source. Where a page needs no external sources, it says so rather than manufacturing them.
Corrections in public
When we get something wrong we say so on the page and record it. Oureditorial standards andcorrections process are published in full.
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