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How Finnish youth learn to spot disinformation

HELSINKI — Finland is consistently ranked as Europe's most media-literate country, and the skills needed to spot online hoaxes are on the school curriculum amid a boom of misinformation and disinformation campaigns.

'Who knew what a troll was before?' literature and Finnish language teacher Saara Varmola asked her 14- to 15-year-old students, who all promptly raised their hands during a class at a school in the capital Helsinki in November.

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