Episode 68: The Financial Impact of Digital Illiteracy

In today’s society, being digitally literate is a key life skill that we all need. As time goes on, this will only become more important. But did you know that there is a financial impact to you, businesses, and society from lack of digital literacy? Take a listen in our latest episode of Making Cents of Money to find out how. Show notes: ‘Verified’ Twitter accounts share fake image of ‘explosion’ near Pentagon, causing confusion”- https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/22/tech/twitter-fake-image-pentagon-explosion/index.html Anti-vaxxers are costing Americans billions of dollars per year: :https://finance.yahoo.com/news/antivaxxers-costing-americans-billions-each-year-191839191.html Public Act 102-0055: https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=102-0055 The Economic Cost of Bad Actors on the Internet: https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.mediapost.com/uploads/EconomicCostOfFakeNews.pdf  Resource for checking fake news: https://www.snopes.com/ HoweyTrade from Investor.gov (learn how to identify securities scams): https://www.investor.gov/additional-resources/spotlight/howeytrade