Page 54 - Media&Information Literacy - Good Practices
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Report March 2021, published by Open Society Institute-Sofia
One of the leitmotives of the index has been that education is
paramount in addressing the fake news problem and could be
considered before other approaches - “education before regulation”.
In the report, the role of education was compared to vaccination
against the fake news and post-truth phenomenon, where it would
be building immunity to various strains and forms of false claims,
disinformation, propaganda, etc.
Reality is more complex and there are other factors at work –
psychological factors such as confirmation bias or political
polarization which feeds on and perpetuates misinformation.
However, better functional education and specialized media
literacy education would offer resistance against the worst cases
of fake news and post-truth.
