In Paris, Bryce discovers how the 2015 Charlie Hebdo terror attacks focused the minds of French people to the importance of media literacy - such that lessons are now mandated in all French schools. He visits a high school classroom where teens are being taught to tell online fact from fiction, meets the Agence France Presse team of fact-checkers and sits down with a former journalist turned digital literacy advocate whose organisation, Lie Detectors, is tackling misinformation one lie at a time.

Links:

AFP Fact Check

Entre Les Lignes

CLEMI

Mapping the media literacy landscape in France - European Digital Media Observatory

Media & Learning in France

Lie Detectors

Articles:

In France school lessons ask which Twitter post should you trust? - New York Times 
Facebook and Instagram get rid of fact checkers - BBC

This podcast has been made possible by the ⁠Winston Churchill Trust Australia⁠

See ⁠Newshounds by Squiz Kids⁠ for information about our media literacy program for primary school children. 

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Host: Bryce Corbett

Producer & Editor: Ryan Pemberton