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EC pushes ‘critical thinking’ courses for ‘first-time voters’ to tackle disinformation
The European Commission is pushing for media literacy across the bloc via courses in “critical thinking and politics” aimed at secondary school students, or what it termed “first-time voters”.
The European Commission is pushing for media literacy across the bloc via courses in “critical thinking and politics” aimed at secondary school students, or what it termed “first-time voters”. These bodies included national telecom and media authorities such as France’s Arcom — an organisation that recently faced backlash for its controversial decision to cancel a popular right-wing show. “As technology evolves, we need to build society’s immunity against information manipulation,” she argued, citing research suggesting that “pre-bunking” — preemptively countering falsehoods — was far more effective than debunking misinformation after it has already taken hold.
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