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Icetoad 🍕 🎩 🐈
@icetoad.eth
If this was also taught in the USA then Trump would never have been elected to a second term.
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eggman 🔵
@eggman.eth
You may be forgetting that it fully comes down to who writes and approves the curriculum - or, who's in power when it gets approved. This is a terrible approach tbh. Developing someone's critical thinking skills can't boil down to one module on "identifying fake news" imo.
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azb
@azbest
What? “Identifying fake news” = media literacy skills ≈ being able to assess the credibility of a piece of information. That's essentially applying critical thinking to a particular situation; it’s not like you’re just given a list of famous fake news to memorize…
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eggman 🔵
@eggman.eth
What would pass for fake news in one country can be completely different to another. You can’t blanket-tar out the advice to check every source and reference, because literally nobody will do that. Modern news is designed to be digestible and tabloid-like; the expectation of an audience to spend hours googling every bit of content they consume is absurd. To double on that then, online sources can be infected with the same level of dubiousness. Matters are made considerably worse when it comes to more modern information sources. Covid vaccines being the largest example as of late, with the arguments of them being safe or unsafe having fuel added to the fire by Moderna and other companies either delaying clinical trial data releases, or outright receiving permission to permanently stop them from being released. So, you’ve now sources claiming they’re objectively safe, and others claiming they’re objectively unsafe, neither with data to back them. A module on propaganda can’t cover this.
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azb
@azbest
You’re arguing against some epistemologically maximalist straw man. Media literacy is not about being able to instantly establish the ultimate truth, it just helps you to notice that you’re probably being misinformed. The same old playbook is used (and works) in most cases, so it’s important to know it; when the majority is media illiterate, there’s no need for a very sophisticated persuasion…
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Lish 🎩🦄🌈😺
@lish.eth
Then is there no objective truth? Should move this to the philosophy channel. True that modern news is misleading by design for quick digestion. I think young people could benefit to learn perspectives on how to critically digest, i.e. research and compare.
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Icetoad 🍕 🎩 🐈
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Fake news is not different from one country to another
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