In a column published Tuesday by “La Voix du Nord”, the signatories point to a “lack of means and resources” in media education, even though it is included in school curricula.
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“Mr. President, the situation calls for raising media and information literacy to the level of a great national cause.” In a column published Tuesday, May 31 in The voice of the Northfifty associations – including Fake Off, Know How to Become or Reporters Without Borders – and more than a hundred personalities involved in media education are asking Emmanuel Macron to “create without delay a ‘media and information literacy fund'”. This fund “could be financed by the state and by a fraction of the digital business tax” and “would make it possible to support the players in the field“, they argue.
In their text, the signatories also echo the obstacles they face in their missions, particularly with young people. This last “is today disarmed in the face of a continuous flow of information, posts and messages, the reliability and relevance of which she is struggling to assess”they write, thinking “extremely worried”.
“Not all young French people have the tools to form an informed and healthy opinion, they are drawn into dangerous spirals, which can lead to isolation and radicalization.”
The signatories of the tribunein “The Voice of the North”
Faced with these problems, they deplore that “media and information literacy, included in the curricula, but without dedicated hours, is the sole responsibility of individual initiatives” with a “lack of means and resources”. The tribune therefore asks “to place the France at the forefront of the fight against disinformation and online manipulation” and of “shaping true citizenship in the digital age, everywhere and for everyone”.