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Interview 1781 - Oxford Fights Climate Lockdowns - #NewWorldNextWeek

The Corbett Report - Feature Interviews

The Corbett Report

News, Politics

4.8671 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

This week on the New World Next Week: Finland teaches its citizens about media literacy; Oxfordians are already pushing back against the 15-minute city idea; and Lukashenko abolishes copyright in Belarus (kinda sorta not really).

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0:00.0

Welcome back to New World next week. I'm James Corbett of CorbettReport.com.

0:13.8

And I'm James Evan Pallado from Mediamonickey.com. Anyone with any self-respect will fight you with our

0:19.1

dying breath. We've got that story plus

0:21.8

abolishing copyright, but first, how Finland is teaching a generation to spot misinformation.

0:29.0

By Jenny Gross and the New York Times, a typical lesson that Sarah Martika, a teacher in

0:33.6

Hamilina, Finland, gives her students, goes like this.

0:39.5

She presents her eighth graders with news articles.

0:42.2

Together, they discuss, what's the purpose of the article?

0:43.6

How and when was it written?

0:45.5

What are the author's central claims?

0:51.4

Just because it's a good thing or it's a nice thing doesn't mean it's true or it's valid, she said.

0:56.0

In her class last month, she showed students three TikTok videos, and they discussed the creator's motivations and the effects that the videos had on them.

1:00.0

Her goal, like that if teachers around Finland is to help students learn to identify false information.

1:06.0

Finland ranked number one 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.

1:20.3

Officials say Finland's success is not just the result of its strong education system, which is one of the best in the world, but also because of a concerted effort

1:28.5

to teach students about fake news. Media literacy is part of the national core curriculum starting

1:34.3

in preschool. After Finland, the European countries that ranked highest for resilience to

1:39.0

misinformation in the Open Society Institute survey, did we mention it's the Open Society

1:43.4

Institute survey, were Norway, Denmark's the Open Society Institute survey?

1:44.9

Were Norway, Denmark, Estonia, Ireland, and Sweden. A survey by Gallup published in October,

1:51.9

however, found that just 34% of Americans trusted the mass media to report the news fully,

1:57.0

accurately, and fairly, slightly higher than the lowest number the organization recorded in 2016,

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