Schools to wage war on putrid fake news in anti-extremism crackdown

Children will be educated how to identify terrorists’ content and fake news in the Web, with changes to the educational program after the riots of the previous week. 
 
Through methods like English, ICT subjects, and mathematics, schools will have to ‘prepare’ the pupils to counter ‘stinking conspiracy theories, according to the Education Secretary. 
 
Head of the education select committee Bridget Phillipson said that, according to the new plans, pupils as young as five would learn how to assess information critical thinking. 

The intervention was in response to this after a 13-year-old boy was charged on Saturday with violent disorder in Manchester as a result of the disturbance in the region. 

Ms Phillipson said: The internet is a far more powerful medium than television and it’s crucial to ensure that children have the know how to counteract dreadfuls they come across on the internet. 
 
That’s why our curriculum review will provide a plan to deepen those communities with the critical thinking skills they need to protect themselves in the further school and elsewhere from the twitterings of lies, fake news and other putrid conspiracy theories. 
 
“The renewed curriculum will unceasingly place high and rising standards of core skills first – this we cannot compromise on; however, we shall also foster a curriculum that brings in more cultural subjects for students, most importantly enhancing and enlightening their working life undertakings. 
 
This followed Britain’s top police officer calling on people to logout from face book, twitter among other social network sites believed to be encouraging rioters, who are mostly youngsters. 
 
Speaking to The Telegraph, chairman of the National Police Chiefs’ Council and Chief Constable Gavin Stephens was quoted as saying: “maybe we should be deleting more than we are posting. ” 
 
Police affect that specialist detectives specializing in organized crime have been deployed to target influencers with many followers who incite hate and violence. 
 
The far-Right riots which has been going on for a two week period erupted over more fake news on social media that an asylum seeker was responsible for the Southport stabbings. 
 
They were angered by fresh and ‘more and more sophisticated’ types of disinformation, from fresh websites impersonating newspapers’ and broadcasters’. 
 
Ministers claimed the disorder illustrated why the issue of those young people are drawn into ‘toxic’ online worlds ‘must be’ addressed. 
 
Ms Phillipson is currently in the process of reviewing the curriculum for the primary and the secondary school, and she said it did not prepare adequate number of children for work or for life. 
 
The review will examine how methods to teach children to identify and exclude sources with extremism works by ‘infusing’ critical thinking into various subjects that are taught in class. 
 
The outlined changes would prevent children from only missing all far-left conspiracy theories, along with religion-based propaganda, as well as all other kinds of extremism. 
 
An example could be where the English lesson is involved in analyzing newspaper articles, comparing their writing style to fake news. 
 
It would educate children how to distinguish between independent journalists, who report the facts and propaganda, that where one searches for bias and overstated information in the latter. 
 
During the computer lessons students are expected to be enlightened on how to distinguish between genuine and fake websites and other information processing sites. 
 
Most propaganda sites are conspicuous imitations of genuine news generators, of newspapers and broadcasters, but some are becoming more professional. 
 
More information about the Southport attacker was spread by the fake news Channel3 Now which appears to be a US news channel but is of Russian origin. 
 
Pupils could also be prepared for identifying immediately such pictures that come from real news websites, but where the headline or the text of the story has actually been altered. 
 
This week a story with the logo of The Telegraph was shared challenging the reader to guess which turnover this profitable company has. It created a false story that it planned to construct detainment camps in the Falklands Islands for persons involving in riots. 
 
These works were significantly disseminated on social media: A photograph of the fake piece was reposted on social media by Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X or twitter Previously known as twitter. 
 
Even Maths classes could be shifted to learn how to analyse the statistics in context, teaching pupils where they can find the signs that given statistics do not support the claims made. 
 
The other aspect, curriculum review, led by Prof Becky Francis, will give its feedback next year, so its implementation may start in September 2025. 
 
It comes following violence leading to division on the social media giants that promote posts from extreme individuals. Currently, ministers are considering ideas that were once previously introduced by the Tories on what could be categorized as ‘legal but harmful’ content that would necessitate the tech firms to regulate it and even reduce its access. 
 
Whitehall sources responded that to achieve such objectives it would be desirable for future measures to be combined with raising awareness about risks stemming from incitement to hatred on the Internet. 
 
One said: “In the end, we saw it through the events of this week of how misleading things are, and people are getting pulled into toxic online environments…kids have to be equipped with the tools they need now and ability and capacity for a bitterly polarized online world that is constantly evolving. ” 
 
Mr Stephens followed such acts which defined the riots as “how vulnerable we all are to disinformation and vile hatred on-line”. He added: As we have talked in the recent year about safety measures in protecting our children on the internet, what we have learnt this week is that if left to reign free the internet and posting of wrong information is quite capable of neutralizing all safety. 
 
“How we conduct ourselves on the internet…is not just a game…It is reality check that comes along with every ‘post’ we make; ‘delete’ more than you ‘share’. 

Mr Stephens, who met the King on Friday, has said a word to those who have instigated others to engage in any form of violence, especially via the social media that they should get ready for a knock on their doors. 
 
He said that the number of people arresting and charging would “certainly increase by folds” as officers searched through the riots’ video clips. Regarding social media influencers, the National Police Chiefs’ Council has stated that regional ‘organised crime units’, are ‘working on hundreds of leads’.