Critical thinking and media literacyCritical thinking and media literacy The growing phenomena of misinformation, as well as the effects of the media and especially social media on certain groups, forces us to analyze how this type of education helps to create critical thinking. For this reason, media literacy seems to be necessary in the formation of a citizenry capable of using information critically, without verifying that it is real, since currently society is completely manipulable and allows itself to be influenced by any news or information without verify its veracity. That is why it is important to adopt a methodology that guides society to want to know more and investigate more thoroughly what they are informed in the media offered by the system, and thus be able to have a total view of the situations that occur worldwide. , not just what they want it to look like.