About THINK
THINK helps people understand how information works, evaluate what they encounter online, recognize manipulation and misinformation, and make better-informed decisions.
What THINK is
THINK is a free public education initiative of ARAC International Inc.. It publishes lessons, practice exercises, explanatory articles, structured reports, and printable toolkit resources on how information works and how to evaluate it.
Everything is free, and there is nothing to sign up for. The site sets no cookies, runs no analytics, embeds no third-party content, and collects nothing about visitors. Ourprivacy page describes this in full, including the parts where a link takes you somewhere that does collect data.
The guiding principle
We do not tell you what to think. We help you think about information.
This is a working constraint rather than a slogan. It means that when we analyse a claim, we show the method and the evidence and stop short of telling you what to conclude. It also means we apply the same analysis regardless of who is speaking, which occasionally produces conclusions that satisfy nobody.
What is published here
- 8 lessons, the core instructional material.
- 6 Think Lab exercises for practice.
- 3 articles, explainers that go beyond a single lesson.
- 1 report with stated methods, judgments, and limitations.
- 11 toolkit resources, printable and free to reuse.
Who it is for
In rough order of how the material is prioritized:
- Adults looking for practical media and digital literacy skills.
- Libraries and community organizations running free programming.
- Schools, educators, and youth programmes.
- Nonprofits, faith organizations, and local leaders.
- Journalists, researchers, and NGO professionals who need accessible material to reuse.
Relationship to ARAC International
THINK is published by ARAC International, which works on global development and risk management. THINK is its public education work: separate in tone and audience from the organization's analytic output, and governed by the editorial standards published here.
More about the parent organization is atARAC International.
How to check us
- Our method sets out how material is researched, drafted, reviewed, and updated.
- Editorial standards covers sourcing, citation, confidence language, and what we will not publish.
- Corrections explains how errors are reported, recorded, and shown on the page.
- Accessibility states the standard we build to and what we know is not yet right.
- Privacy describes exactly what is and is not collected.
Contact
Questions, corrections, permission requests, and accessibility requests all go through thecontact page.