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LINK How Finland starts its fight against fake news in primary schools | World news | The Guardian

I think this is a great teaching/learning approach. If fact, children's stories are filled with valuable lessons.

You can start when children are very young, said Kari Kivinen. In fact, you should: “Fairytales work well. Take the wily fox who always cheats the other animals with his sly words. That’s not a bad metaphor for a certain kind of politician, is it?”

With democracies around the world threatened by the seemingly unstoppable onslaught of false information, Finland – recently rated Europe’s most resistant nation to fake news – takes the fight seriously enough to teach it in primary school.

Jetty 7 Apr 25
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OSF (formerly OSI) is funded by George Soros, so likely a left-leaning bias.
There are so few "fake news" metrics and 'judges of same'. The kudos for Finland come from OSIS in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Earlier I have advocated NewsGuard browser extension (journalists rating journalism, who better to do so, but it is now subscription based), although having it installed I still see the green/grey/red indicators for the websites that have been rated by them.

I would like to see MORE (and ubiquitous) "fake news" rating(s), especially from journalist-credible sources.

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