The flocked yellow truck “News Truck trop mytho” is decorated with newspapers and of micros of several television channels. He calls out to young people in front of the Youth Center in Paris. “I came to see what’s going on and what this truck is”confides Doucouré.
For 20 days, the “news truck“of the association Lights on the information toured Île-de-France to meet young people and discuss media and fake news. “I see a lot of fake news on the networks. There was a rap media that said that PLK was dead. It’s full of little lies like that”confides Joshua, 18 years old.
With this tour, the Lumières sur l'info association wants to meet the young people far from current affairs. “For me it's a lot of information with the aim of to influence people towards a certain opinion. I had the feeling that I was being given unfounded information. It made me lose confidence in what we can believe.” says, for example, Nasser, 26, who only gets his information through social networks.
The objective is therefore to explain the work of journalists and convince young people to check the information views on social networks. “Our first act is to listen pour know where this distrust comes from towards the media and journalists. Next, we will try to explain the produces information to show them that information is based on facts and not opinions. We try to plant a little seed in their heads to give them tools to ask yourself the right questions“explains Florian Guadalupe, journalist and member of the association.
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