Resources

This guide explains how headlines and online content are designed to trigger strong emotional reactions, often through emotional manipulation. Learn how clickbait works, the impact of digital misinformation like deepfakes, and why emotion drives sharing. Additionally, discover simple steps to slow down, read critically, and enhance your media literacy to avoid spreading misleading information that can affect mental health.

This guide breaks down how digital misinformation spreads online, including the dangers of deepfakes. Learn the common traits of misinformation, the psychology behind emotional manipulation that leads us to believe and share it, and a simple 4-step method to verify content. This will help protect your mental health and ensure you don’t mislead yourself or your community, while also improving your media literacy.

This guide helps you recognize the silent stress of curated perfection and filtered realities, which can often be exacerbated by digital misinformation and emotional manipulation found in today's media. It provides a simple, actionable toolkit to clean up your digital space, enhance your media literacy, and build habits that support your mental health.

This guide equips you with essential skills to identify deepfakes and combat digital misinformation in videos and audio. Learn the visual and audio tells of these manipulative technologies and a straightforward 3-step method to protect your mental health from emotional manipulation and enhance your media literacy.

This practical guide helps you short-circuit emotional manipulation and activate critical thinking in the face of digital misinformation. Learn to detect bias, verify sources, and understand the real impact of your shares, especially when it comes to deepfakes and their effects on media literacy and mental health.

This brief explores the opportunities and risks of the new digital public sphere, particularly in the context of digital misinformation and deepfakes, while considering the implications of emotional manipulation. It also provides a forward-looking framework to enhance media literacy and address the mental health challenges posed by this transformed landscape.

This quick guide provides five simple steps to help you spot common red flags, from shaky sources to emotional manipulation, especially in the context of digital misinformation and deepfakes, before you share. Enhancing your media literacy is essential for protecting your mental health.