Teach your children well – about fake newsBy The NationThailand would do well to mimic a Finnish model that’s bearing fruit in schools, countering this damaging social menaceStatistics are showing that Finland’s patient and comprehensive campaign to halt the spread of fake news is starting to see positive results. It’s not all that complicated – unless you compare it with teaching young children how to cross the street safely, which in simpler times was the source of our worst worries. Fake news isn’t to be tackled through flash-in-the-pan measures and it would be a grave mistake to leave children out of the public-education process. Thailand, so agonisingly divided along political lines, is vulnerable to fake news and its ugly offspring hate speech. So, in truth, the survival of fake news comes down to the users’ ability to recognise falsity and their level of tolerance for it.

Source: The Nation Bangkok May 26, 2019 21:33 UTC