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Media literacy education can help all people fight against fake news, alternative facts, and the pervasive spread of disinformation in our society. Media literacy should be a required and integral part of all levels of our educational systems. Like legal education, media literacy education teaches critical thinking skills. Students with media literacy education will be able to evaluate media messages and decide for themselves the truth, falsity, and/or bias of media communications in their professional and personal life. Today, information about the world around us comes to us not only by words on a piece of paper but also, more and more, through the powerful images and sounds of our multimedia culture. “Media no longer just shape our culture—they ARE our culture.”