Greens: Teach news

The Scottish Greens have called for teachers and school pupils to be taught how to spot fake news.

The party unveiled proposals to include media literacy and critical thinking in teacher training and the Curriculum for Excellence.

Scottish Greens education and media spokesperson Ross Greer said: “Countries such as Finland are seeing a lot of early success from teaching their children media literacy, critical thinking and an ability to really, really interrogate what they are being told, particularly online.”