Finland Leads the Way in Fighting Fake News Campaigns

Finland is consistently ranked as Europe's most media literate country and the skills needed to spot online hoaxes are on the school curriculum, amid a boom of mis- and disinformation campaigns.

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"Who knew what a troll was before," and disinformation, as well as to produce content of their own, Finland wants to promote media literacy as a civic skill. The Nordic country was among the first in Europe to outline a national policy for media literacy in 2013. Updated in 2019, the national policy ensures media literacy is integrated in subjects throughout education from early childhood to upper secondary classes.

To enhance skills among adults and the elderly, libraries and NGOs are offering courses.

"Media literacy is essential to building societal resilience and Finland realised this quite early on," Anders Adlercreutz, the minister of education, said.