<p>We engage in radical digital media literacy by enjoying a bite of education and a bit of poetry, creating humane responses to fake news and social media in the era of Covid-19.</p><br><p>Each short episode assembles materials made over three related efforts. First, complex and consequential ideas about fake news: “hardtruths.” These were gathered in 2017 for an online primer in digital media literacy, <a href="https://scalar.usc.edu/nehvectors/100hardtruths-fakenews/index" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#100hardtruths-#fakenews</a>. There you can find scores of resources about fake news by artists, journalists, activists, scholars, and more. <a href="http://scalar.me/100hardtruths" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://scalar.me/100hardtruths.</a></p><br><p>Next we offer poems that build off of, respond to, or deepen a hardtruth. These were written in 2018 and 2019, at <a href="http://fakenews-poetry.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fake News Poe
