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.
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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.
