Scared of Truth? France Begins Crackdown on Conspiracy Theories…(Calling George Orwell!)
SputnikNews.com
09.02.2016
As more and more French youth are getting hooked on various conspiracy theories, the French Ministry of Education plans to organize a special meeting and bring together 300 teachers, researchers, psychologists and students, Le Figaro reported.
According to the research company Ipsos, one in five among young French citizens believes and supports conspiracy theories, which became ever so popular as of recent, especially after last year’s Paris terrorist attacks.
To combat the spread of disinformation and sometimes outright lunacy, which a few conspiracy theories bring to the table, French Minister of Education Najat Vallaud-Belkacem decided to gather students and educators in a meeting on February 9 and discuss how one could distinguish real and verifiable information from various kinds of unprovable information that many conspiracy theories present.
“Easy access to Internet and a variety of content sources create confusion and it’s sometimes difficult to distinguish right from wrong and to exercise critical judgement,” Vallaud-Belkacem said, as quoted by Le Figaro.
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