In Paris, Bryce discovers how the 2015 Charlie Hebdo terror attacks focused the minds of French people to the importance of media literacy - such that lessons are now mandated in all French schools. He visits a high school classroom where teens are being taught to tell online fact from fiction, meets the Agence France Presse team of fact-checkers and sits down with a former journalist turned digital literacy advocate whose organisation, Lie Detectors, is tackling misinformation one lie at a time.
Links:
AFP Fact Check
Entre Les Lignes
CLEMI
Mapping the media literacy landscape in France - European Digital Media Observatory
Media & Learning in France
Lie Detectors
Articles:
In France school lessons ask which Twitter post should you trust? - New York Times Facebook and Instagram get rid of fact checkers - BBC
This podcast has been made possible by the Winston Churchill Trust Australia
See Newshounds by Squiz Kids for information about our media literacy program for primary school children.
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Host: Bryce Corbett
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