joining us is allan miller, founder and ceo of the news literacy projectct here to talk about the topic of fact checking and then it turns of the 2018. good morning. talk to her views about the project or what is a compounded to get it started? >> guest: with a national nonpartisan educational nonprofit that works with educators andt journalists to middle school, teach middle school and higho school students what to believeig in the digital age and given the tools to be informed and engaged participant in democracy. i was a journalist for 29 years, most of the with the "los angeles times" in washington. when i started in 2008, this was long before alternative facts fakeke news. our goal is to give the next generation the tools to know what news and information to trust, to share and to act on. >> host: when a young person receives news information about politics off of social media, what makes you so they would not be able to see if it's true or not? >> guest: we know both from many studies and from her own expense in the class of last decade that busted they be digital, they don't have