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'Fight vs fake news should start in schools'

SCHOOLS would be the ideal first line of defense in the "battle against disinformation" in the wake of the stream of falsehood spewed in the May 9 elections.

"We can start when students are very young," Joseph Elvir Tubilan, Professor of Communication and Journalism and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences in the state-run Cebu Normal University in Cebu City said.

Source: 'Fight vs fake news should start in schools'