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    A Conspiracy Video Teaches Kids A Lesson About Fake News

    Since 2016, an investigative journalist in France has been on a mission to show students how they're duped, teaching them how to tell online true from false.
    by Eleanor Beardsley May 03, 2018 3 minutes
    Huchon writes five questions that can be used to evaluate the veracity of a news story.

    Our Take A Number series is exploring problems around the world through the lens of a single number.

    As the bell rings students file into class at Maxence Van der Meersch middle school. This morning the kids have a visitor - investigative journalist Thomas Huchon.

    Without telling them the topic of his visit, Huchon says he's going to show them a mini-documentary.

    The video tells how the CIA spread the AIDS virus in Cuba, and says that was the real reason behind the decades-long U.S. embargo. It French pharmaceutical companies could cash in on an AIDS vaccine developed by Cuban doctors.

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