1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Digital Citizenship and Media Literacy Act . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) People in the United States rely on information from mass media, social media, and digital media to make decisions about all aspects of social, economic, and political life, including products and services consumption, employment, career and professional development, family and leisure choices, health and wellness, and democratic engagement. Ensuring that people in the United States possess the skills to make these informed decisions based on media begins early in life. (2) Adversaries from Russia, China, and Iran are using information warfare to influence democracies across the world, and terrorist organizations often use digital communications to recruit members. The United States can fight these influences by ensuring that citizens of the United States possess the necessary skills to identify disinformation and misinformation and think critically about their digital activities. (3) Media literacy education has proven critical to allies of the United States in building national resilience to foreign disinformation campaigns. Countries like Estonia, Finland, and Ukraine have developed and implemented successful media literacy education programs in schools that have helped counter Russian disinformation campaigns. The United States has also invested in and promoted media literacy education abroad, including in the Baltics. (4) Following Russia’s increased aggression towards Ukraine and the West, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, media literacy skills have been important in ensuring Ukrainians and citizens of Western allied countries are not influenced by Russian disinformation. (5) In order to build similar national resilience against foreign disinformation in the United States, Congress has recommended investing in media literacy education. (6) The bipartisan and bicameral Cyberspace Solarium Commission’s 2020 report recommended that the United States invest in media literacy,