In her article, Boyd claims that students don’t understand what they’re reading on the internet and students nowadays tend to read the first response their given on the internet and believe it. This may be because students aren’t able to comprehend what they’re reading because they don’t receive the skills such as digital literacy skills during their primary education. In the Open University Applied Linguistics and Literacies (ALL) Research Groups’ article “Critical Digital Literacy Is Vital for Education Today” the author Liz Ellis focuses on discussing why it is so important to be learning how to comprehend what we’re reading. Ellis expands on Boyds argument and provides more information on one of her main topics that since social media is one of the main sources that people get their information from, most of it may be “fake news” and it has become a panic. She says that “Much of this focus has been on the underlying technology, and particularly the algorithms which create the experience people have of using it, and how this is having an impact on the way news is consumed and shared.” (Ellis) What she means by this is that, the algorithms the major search browsers use create the way people are encountering the information. Due to the fact that these algorithms are biased and they don’t provide the most reliable news, means that people are not getting the most correct information. If people were taught how to analyze and recognize that the information they were reading is most likely untrue then we wouldn’t consistently have the problem of “fake news” being spread around.

Boyd also speaks upon how students have grown up and are taught throughout their lives to never use Wikipedia because “anybody can edit or write what they want”. Boyd refutes these teachers by saying “Wikipedia provides an ideal context for engaging youth to interrogate their sources and understand how information is produced.” (Boyd) Additionally, Madison Malone- Kircher from New York Magazine sees eye to eye with Boyd in her article “Your Middle School Teacher Was Wrong About Wikipedia”. She expands upon how research has been done on Wikipedia and “only 7 percent of all Wikipedia edits are considered vandalism; that is, spam or edits designed to intentionally trick or misinform a reader” (Malone- Kircher). Both Boyd and Madison touch base on how since people are able to update it frequently and whenever they want, Wikipedia could possibly be the most up to date encyclopedia there is today.