How Finland is preparing its citizens for a world swamped by fake news | D+C - Development + Cooperation
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Finland has been ranked a world leader in media literacy for years. Children as young as kindergarten age are being taught to handle the disinformation they will encounter online. We talked to Kari Kivinen, the European Union Intellectual Property Office’s (EUIPO) education outreach expert. A former headmaster in Helsinki, he has contributed to shaping Finland’s media literacy education.
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    The EU has set an ambitious target, specifying that at least 80 % of the adult population should be digitally literate by 2030.

    Being digitally literate is defined as citizens being aware that online information contains misinformation and disinformation,

    Finland has ranked number one in the European Media Literacy Index for several years in a row.

    and almost a third of high school students have trouble judging the reliability of texts

    It would be ambitious if 80% of adults should be able to judge the reliability. Being aware of disinformation sounds useful but it is almost useless.