Critical Thinking Skills: How to Combat Fake News, with Helen Lee Bouygues

In this episode, we're talking about how to think critically about the news and information that you come across every day.

With today's guest, Helen Lee Bouygues, we're chatting about something really important: critical thinking skills.

It seems like more and more lately we're coming across fake news and information that's simply not true.

It can be really hard to tell what's real and what's not, but with some simple techniques, you can start thinking critically about the news you digest, and get a better understanding of what's going on in the world.

Helen Lee Bouygues is one of the most successful women in business transformation. She has served as interim CEO, CFO, or COO for more than a dozen companies. Helen is the founder of The Reboot Foundation, a columnist at Forbes, and currently working on a book on critical thinking.

The Reboot Foundation is dedicated to supporting efforts by individuals and organizations to better integrate critical thinking into our daily lives. They conduct surveys and opinion polls, lead their own research, and support the work of university-affiliated scholars in a shared goal to help improve critical thinking.

In our conversation today, Helen explains why social media is harming our critical thinking skills, how to improve our media literacy, and why the Pope endorsing Donald Trump for his presidency (spoiler alert: he didn't) was the modern birth of what we all know as fake news.

Here's my conversation with Helen Lee Bouygues, founder of The Reboot Foundation, in episode 574 of Informed Choice Radio.