{"id":21046,"date":"2025-09-22T12:45:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T11:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i3-cnrs.fr\/evenement\/les-enfants-et-adolescents-face-aux-fake-news-next-ink\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T10:14:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T09:14:33","slug":"les-enfants-et-adolescents-face-aux-fake-news-next-ink","status":"publish","type":"actualite","link":"https:\/\/i3-cnrs.fr\/en\/actualite\/les-enfants-et-adolescents-face-aux-fake-news-next-ink\/","title":{"rendered":"Children and teenagers confronted with fake news (Next.ink)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 id=\"chapo-1\" class=\"chapo chapo-1 chapo-type-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Can an 11-year-old child distinguish between fake news and real news? No, according to a study conducted by researchers at the CNRS. The problem is that some of them are already heavily exposed to social media. Nevertheless, their critical thinking skills improve with age. However, care must be taken not to swing from critical thinking to conspiracy theories.<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[\u2026]\u00a0<a class=\"external newClass\" title=\"Antonio Casilli\" href=\"https:\/\/next.ink\/169487\/antonio-casilli-lintelligence-artificielle-est-lune-des-industries-extractives-de-notre-epoque\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Antonio Casilli<\/a>, <em>professor of sociology at T\u00e9l\u00e9com Paris, pointed out in 2022 that &#8220;the algorithms that determine each user&#8217;s news feed are optimized to highlight messages that are powerful and provoke strong emotional reactions. This is a kind of \u2018bonus\u2019 for emotion and controversy, which encourages users to stay connected longer. That&#8217;s why the most outrageous fake news stories are widely shared.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[\u2026] But the researcher also warns against a negative effect that can quickly arise: <em>\u201cThe real difficulty we face is developing critical thinking in teenagers, while preventing them from starting to doubt all information. Otherwise, they risk taking refuge on websites that only publish information they already agree with, or even subscribing to conspiracy theories.\u201d<\/em> [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/next.ink\/198917\/les-enfants-et-adolescents-face-aux-fake-news\/\">Read in (Net.ink)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article by Antonio Casilli<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21044,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-21046","actualite","type-actualite","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry","has-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i3-cnrs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actualite\/21046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i3-cnrs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actualite"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i3-cnrs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/actualite"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i3-cnrs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i3-cnrs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}