CritiSense: Critical Digital Literacy and Resilience Against Misinformation
Abstract
Misinformation on social media undermines informed decision-making and public trust. Prebunking offers a proactive complement by helping users recognize manipulation tactics before they encounter them in the wild. We present CritiSense, a mobile media-literacy app that builds these skills through short, interactive challenges with instant feedback. It is the first multilingual (supporting nine languages) and modular platform, designed for rapid updates across topics and domains. We report a usability study with 93 users: 83.9% expressed overall satisfaction and 90.1% rated the app as easy to use. Qualitative feedback indicates that CritiSense helps improve digital literacy skills. Overall, it provides a multilingual prebunking platform and a testbed for measuring the impact of microlearning on misinformation resilience. Over 6 months, we have reached 500+ active users. It is freely available to all users on the Apple App Store (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/critisense/id6749675792) and Google Play Store (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.critisense&hl=en).
Cite
@article{arxiv.2603.16672,
title = {CritiSense: Critical Digital Literacy and Resilience Against Misinformation},
author = {Firoj Alam and Fatema Ahmad and Ali Ezzat Shahroor and Mohamed Bayan Kmainasi and Elisa Sartori and Giovanni Da San Martino and Abul Hasnat and Raian Ali},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.16672},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
resilience, disinformation, misinformation, fake news, propaganda