Hawaii SB844 empowers school complexes to incorporate media literacy into curriculum to combat misinformation and online hate speech.
Hawaii SB844 amends the state's education statutes to allow school complexes to integrate media literacy into their standards-based curriculum. This includes content aimed at preventing the negative impacts of misinformation, disinformation, digital discrimination, and online hate speech. The bill emphasizes the importance of education in a healthy democracy and seeks to address pervasive threats to modern society by equipping students with informed digital citizenship skills.
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