LibGuides: Media Literacy: Family, Friends, and Falsehoods

Questions and Strategies to Talk to People Engaging in Conspiracy Theories

How to Speak Up Without Starting a Showdown
Six best practices for talking to friends and family about sharing falsehoods online.
Experts In Cult Deprogramming Step In To Help Believers In Conspiracy Theories (11 minute NPR radio segment)
With disinformation spreading on an unprecedented scale, experts in cult deprogramming are turning their expertise to those who have fallen down the rabbit hole of conspiracy theories.
What We Can Learn from People Who Take the Flat Earth Theory Seriously
Flat Earth enables people to cast out all previous information that they didn’t want to believe and rebuild the world from scratch.