Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, the Minister of Education, organizes this Tuesday, February 9 a study day on the theme “Responding to conspiracy theories”, which brings together 300 researchers, professors , psychiatrists and students.
“What pedagogical educational answers and deal with conspiracy theories?” This is the round table at which Najat Vallaud- Belkacem was to participate this Tuesday, February 9, amid teachers. To reach younger, the government has opened its account on the subject on Snapchat. This mobile application is an instant messenger that allows you to exchange photos and videos, which disappear after 24 hours. The website Ontemanipule.fr also just been launched to counter the complotistes speech. “The advent of multi-screen, ease of access over the Internet to a variety of content sources, create confusion in which it is sometimes difficult to distinguish right from wrong and to exercise critical judgment. In this context, the Government Information Service (GIS) has set a goal to raise awareness and encourage users – particularly those aged 15 and 25 – to decrypt complotistes speech, playfully, impactful and sustainable “said Sig.
One in five young adheres to the conspiracy theory
On 15 January last the minister said that “one in five adheres to the conspiracy theory.” A figure out of an Ipsos poll concerns the French believing in ‘the existence of the secret society of the Illuminati. ” During the attacks in January and November 2015, the wildest theories have blossomed into young heads like old. “Some students were obsessed with the color of the car mirrors attackers who changed between two pictures,” says Professor Sophie Mazet who teaches English at Auguste-Blanqui school in Saint-Ouen (Seine-Saint-Denis). “Students often make the link between the passport of one of the attackers found in the rubble of September 11, 2001, the ID card forgotten in a car of one of the brothers in January Kouachi and false passports molesters of 13 November. Although these events have no connection, “she says again.
Nothing very new for teachers that had emerged in 2001, the same nonsense on September 11, an attack supposedly fomented by Jews. The cause of the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963 also continue to thrive the more outlandish theories. Since the early twentieth century, the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion”, this false written in 1901, which presents itself as a plan of conquest of the world by Jews and Freemasons, regularly reborn from its ashes. Indeed, conspiracy theories are as old information.
How Google unwittingly involved in the distribution of plots
Asked Le Figaro Rudy Reichstadt, site founder conspiracy watch, however questioned the role of the internet shortly after the attacks of January. “If the word is complotiste largely discredited by the company on the Internet, power relations are reversed. The conspiracy theories it spread, he said. Teenagers have always been fascinated by the mysterious stuff, esoteric books about the Templars. But first he had to be interested, buy these books … Today, the perfectly chimerical conspiracy of the Illuminati available to them on the Net. “. The sites of sulfur Dieudonne, Soral or Meyssan particularly involved in the spread of these theories.
You might think that with better access to information, it is now easier to know if we should fear a conspiracy or not. But the opposite happens, explains Sophie Mazet in his “intellectual self-defense Manual” published in September 2015. It explains how the Google search engine involuntarily involved in conspiracies. On subjects highly valued by users the Loch Ness monster, the sites advocating irrational belief represent the overwhelming majority of available information; purely scientific explanations come last in the search results and are much less numerous. It should be added a number of sociologist Gerald Bronner: 65% of Internet users watch only the first page of search results; 25% do not exceed the second …
On all these issues related to conspiracy theories, after the attacks, the rue de Grenelle has made new with the old. She focused on media education and information, which exists since 1983. The latter is now integrated into a “citizen course.” The minister also wished the development of media students in each school. In November 2015, the Ministry of Education, had distributed educational resources for teachers: articles, conferences, videos.
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