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Matthew Johnson is Director of Education at MediaSmarts, Canada’s centre for digital media literacy. He has consulted on curriculum for several provinces and served on expert boards and panels for organizations including the Canadian Pediatric Society, the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario and the Sex Information and Education Council of Canada. He can be found on Twitter at @irregularverbal. For more information about MediaSmarts and their programs including Break the Fake, please visit www.mediasmarts.ca.
It usually takes less than a minute to verify that what we're reading isn't misinformation.
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