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Monday, 26 March 2018

BBC journalists to teach children how to identify fake news

Comment: Hahahahahahahahaha. Ahem. And this from an organisation that thrives on institutional bias and fake news gems like the staging of a chemical weapons attack in Syria.

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The Telegraph

BC journalists are to visit schools to teach children how to identify fake news.

The initiative has been designed to tackle false information that the corporation says “threatens fact-based public debate and trust in journalism.”

Details of the scheme, which will involve up to 1,000 schools, will be outlined in the BBC’s annual plan on Wednesday.

It will includes BBC journalists such as Huw Edwards, Tina Daheley, Nikki Fox, Kamal Ahmed and Amol Rajan.

The details come after Ofcom, the communications regulator, warned that children were being increasingly exposed to fake news, with nearly half of 12 to 15-year-olds finding it difficult to tell fact from fiction on social media. 

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