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Navigate the news — together

Is your teen getting their news and information from TikTok or Instagram? Can they tell what’s real and what’s not? The online world moves fast, but Scroll Smarter can help you and your family keep up.

Our free monthly newsletter gives parents and caregivers quick, helpful tips to make sense of today’s information overload. You’ll get smart, family-friendly tools to help your kids think more clearly about what they see online.

We deliver Scroll Smarter once a month, so it’s easy to keep up and never clutters your inbox.

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Scroll Smarter covers trending topics in social media, algorithms, influencers, journalism, viral rumors, artificial intelligence and more. Each issue includes easy-to-use tips, tools and advice — plus a Q&A section where families ask questions and share ideas for talking about news and information with kids and teens.

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Who’s behind Scroll Smarter?

Scroll Smarter is created by a team of news literacy experts, including journalists, educators, designers and parents who follow NLP’s news literacy values and standards: Susan MinichielloAlee QuickPeter Adams and Hannah Covington. It is edited by Lourdes Venard.

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Each month, in the Family Q&A section of Scroll Smarter, we feature news literacy questions about parenting in today’s digital landscape. Have questions about AI, social media, misinformation or journalism? Send us your question using this form, and we may answer it in our next newsletter issue.

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