The Documentary Podcast
The Documentary Podcast
BBC World Service
You Can Handle The Truth
50 minutes Posted Jun 9, 2018 at 9:00 pm.
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Students in Uganda are the guinea pigs for a new scientific discipline – researchers are teaching them to be the first firewall against alternative facts. Academics from Uganda and Norway worked with 10,000 students in classrooms across Kampala to find out how well children can fight back against false information, in this case about health care.