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Re:Facebook to Let Users Rank Credibility of News by yAnonymous on Monday January 22, 2018 @09:35AM (#16204603)
First of all, good education should come from schools.

Being able to further educate yourself and judge the trustworthiness of sources are direct results of a good primary education.

Many western states have criminally decreased education expanses for decades and the current state of the civilization is in big parts a result of that.

This shit is infectious, too. Many stupid people think their kids don't need a good education, even if there's a chance for them to get one.

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Re:Facebook to Let Users Rank Credibility of News by pixl97 on Monday January 22, 2018 @10:01AM (#16204784)
And if schoolbooks are filled with 'fake news'. All you've done at this point is create an appeal to authority.

http://www.textbookleague.org/103feyn.htm

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Re:Facebook to Let Users Rank Credibility of News by ctrl-j on Monday January 22, 2018 @11:38AM (#16205669)
A good education is far more than just textbooks. Critical thinking is what is missing here - and is what needs to be taught in schools.

Mindless regurgitation of facts doesn't really help anyone - and that's the majority of what I've seen in highschools in America.

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Re:Facebook to Let Users Rank Credibility of News by s0rce on Monday January 22, 2018 @11:53AM (#16205827)
I think this is the key point. Even if schools presented largely propaganda but they spent an effective amount of time teaching useful critical thinking then the students might have enough experience/tools to think for themselves and not accept everything in the books.
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Re:Facebook to Let Users Rank Credibility of News by bhandziuk on Monday January 22, 2018 @11:09AM (#16205428)
I think the type of education they're talking about is not formal education like in school but how to educate yourself about today's events. Not something you could or should go to school for.
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Re:Facebook to Let Users Rank Credibility of News by mistermann on Monday January 22, 2018 @11:31AM (#16205612)
I'm not so sure, critical reading/thinking skills could be taught in school, just take newspaper articles and pick out the parts that are fake/misleading. Finding teachers able to do this may be easier said than done though, as would doing it in a non-partisan way.
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