Digital literacy and media literacy are the contemporary expressions of a perennial cognitive capacity: the ability to evaluate sources, detect manipulation, distinguish signal from noise, and understand the interests that shape the information environment. Every medium — oral, manuscript, print, broadcast, digital — creates its own distortions, and literacy in any medium requires understanding not only its content but its structure and the biases it introduces. The Sutras' category of viparyaya (false perception) has never been more dangerous than in an environment designed at industrial scale to exploit cognitive vulnerabilities.
Each step builds on the last.