A partnership between La Salle University and Florida-based journalism nonprofit Poynter Institute will bring a series of digital literacy training programs to Philadelphia, with the goal of helping high school and middle school students real news stories from fast-traveling falsehoods online.

MediaWise, a Poynter-led initiative with Google funding, has a bold goal: teaching 1 million teens the difference between fact and fiction online. It wants at least half of that target population to come from underserved and low-income communities.

Here in Philly, the initiative found a partner in La Salle, which will host at least four fake-news-spotting workshops over the coming months. The first training, led by MediaWise instructors, will take place April 6 on campus, as part of its open house event for high school students accepted to La Salle.

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