How Finland is teaching a generation to spot misinformation

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In a class last month, she showed students three TikTok videos, and they discussed the creators’ motivations and the effect that the videos had on them.Her goal, like that of teachers around Finland, is to help students learn to identify false information.Finland ranked first out of 41 European countries on resilience against misinformation for the fifth time in a row in a survey published in October by the Open Society Institute in Sofia, Bulgaria.Articles containing falsehoods that are written by non-native speakers can sometimes be easily identified because of grammatical or syntax errors, Pekkala said.Now that programs are in place for young people, the government is using libraries as centers for teaching older people to identify online information that is intended to mislead, Pekkala said."

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