- Discovered journalistic methods of creating and validating information.
- Developed the ability to flush out some false information thanks to simple tools.
- Been made aware of the mechanisms of conspiracy theories.
- Discovered cognitive biases that sometimes naturally lead us to accept that the probable situation is always the true one.
InfoHunter: Improve your media literacy skills and track fake news!
Today, a picture or a video can be manipulated in a thousand ways. We can lie on the caption of a photo or on the subtitles of a video and, with editing, we can alter history... So, how can we recognise the truth? How do we know if the content is reliable or not? Where, when, how and why was a photo taken? In an era of "fake news", it has become essential to know how to ask the right questions, how to track details, and to know about the tools that can help to ease this process. InfoHunter, a pedagogical resource from the French Safer Internet Centre (SIC), is a free digital course for teenagers to help them acquire good media literacy reflexes.
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