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Dan Evon on Choose to Be Curious podcast: How curiosity helps us avoid misinformation

On Choose to Be Curious, a podcast and radio show, Dan Evon, Senior Manager of Education Design at the News Literacy Project, talked about how curiosity can help us avoid falsehoods online.

He offered news literacy tips featured on RumorGuard, the News Literacy Project’s platform that tracks misinformation trends.

“Something that’s difficult for people is: We all want to have answers, we all want to come to a definitive conclusion. And sometimes that’s not there — and we have to be OK with that,” he said.

Listen to the episode here.