Fighting Disinformation Can Feel Like a Lost Cause. It Isn't.

[PatrickforB]

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/07/opinion/fighting-disinformation-education.html

This is a really provocative editorial. Worth the read. Here is a quick excerpt:

Over the past five years, Finland has become one of the world’s leaders in disinformation education. High school students there are given a series of political topics and asked to compile lists of stories and commentary from across the internet. They’re then tasked with investigating the veracity of claims. In some schools, even elementary school students are given a “tool kit” that provides them with ways to spot dubious information online.

When I read this, I thought, "What a great idea! We should do that here in the US."

But we don't. The article continues:

In my last newsletter about disinformation, I wrote about a study by the Stanford History Education Group that showed that American high school students were failing basic media literacy and disinformation-spotting tests. Today, I want to dive a bit deeper into the results, which were largely divided by class and race.

So there you have it.

As always, one must ask the pointed queston cui bono? Who benefits from keeping us in ignorance?

[AlexSFCA]

1. not even dem states do it, lost cause