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Essay about digital skills

A publication has contacted you to share your expertise on digital skills, particularly concerning the digital generation and how the spread of fake news affects businesses and society. Make sure to include the following topics:

• Introduction and contemporary context: Introduce the essay, its purpose, and the context in which it is developed
• Digital customers and citizens and digital skills: Why are customers and citizens nowadays considered digital? Highlight the most important digital skills of the current digital generation and the process of digital thinking, explain three of the most relevant ones and discuss why they are important in the contemporary context.
• Digital information and misinformation: Develop on the skills of finding reliable information in a digital context (how one can do it, why it is important) and being able to evaluate different sources, as well as they impact that misinformation spread online has on businesses, customers, and society at large. Reflect on how misinformation is spread, main platforms, how it works, and how digital skills and thinking can help overcome this problem.
• Conclusion and recommendation: reflect on the most important points of the essay and include two key recommendations for (1) developing digital skills and (2) avoid spreading misinformation.