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Recognizing fake news now a required subject in California schools (www.pleasantonweekly.com)

submitted 11 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The GOP would fight this so hard in red states

[–] isles@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Really? Seems like something they'd run with, as long as they got to pick the curricula and decide what the reputable sources are. You could continue to galvanize a base into believing they now DO have critical thinking skills.

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Well yes, even California is going to decide what to focus on. Which will be mostly politics I’d imagine. Neither one of them is going to focus on who the real problems are: rich people deciding what gets covered so they remain in power.

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 months ago

It's a tough one, because there is (at least as of this moment) still such a thing as objective truth. Obviously if they're just teaching propaganda then yeah it's bullshit. But if a person is actually given the tools to help them find that objective truth, they will use those tools themselves, and evaluate a source themselves.

A course like this isn't (or shouldn't be at least), "these are the right facts, these are the wrong facts," it's about teaching a person how to determine that for themselves. And once they do that, you lose control.

[–] freeindv@monyet.cc 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No way would the GOP fight something that helps more people wake up to the reality that CNN is fake news

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, I heard “Fox News” can you repeat yourself?

[–] freeindv@monyet.cc -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Fox is reputable, unlike CNN

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Go back to Truth Social, grandpa.

[–] freeindv@monyet.cc -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Begone bigot

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago

Feeling like a minority, snowflake? Good.