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The #Truth really is out there … ask your Year 8 teacher

30 May 2023

4:00 AM

30 May 2023

4:00 AM

We can all relax now. Channel Ten News ‘exclusively revealed’ this past week that soon every high school in Australia will be equipped to teach students how to separate fact from fake news.

‘Especially around Covid and the war between Russia and Ukraine,’ one Year 8 student earnestly told the TV news show.

This would be some achievement – solving a problem that has baffled media and communications PhDs and other experts for decades… Who knew ‘the truth is out there’? (Apart from Mulder.)

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