Discussion of health literacy and the fight against health misinformation often centers around fact-checking or debunking written materials. However, identifying misleading visualizations and imagery is also a vital skill for navigating the current health information landscape. This interactive session will give you a variety of skills to analyze visual information. Deceptive imagery types covered will include graphs and charts, manipulated images in scientific publications, out-of-context images, and AI-generated imagery.

Upon completing this class, you should be able to:

• Explain why visual misinformation is particularly convincing. 
• Recognize how data presentation methods can shape the message conveyed by data.
• Identify out of context images and locate their original context.
• Describe the scope and implications of deliberately manipulated images in biomedical research publications.
• Distinguish between AI-generated and authentic images and videos.