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[โ€“] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Common sense starts to become a lot less common when education systems start to fail.

IMO schools should have a subject like "media" which informs about how desinformation, conformation bias and social media algorithms work in creating filter bubbles and "alternate" facts.

Interestingly, when I was in high school some 15 years ago, we did have one week where we went over determining the reliability of a source and media literacy. (No social media algorithms though.)

Of course a bunch of the other kids in my class complained about it the whole time and said they would never need it. Judging from what I know of them now, they indeed never used those skills.