After a week of far-right rioting fuelled by social media misinformation, the British government is to change the school curriculum so English schoolchildren are taught the critical thinking skills to spot online misinformation.

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The [EU is to change the law to make social media owners and company executives personally liable](https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/1emdgm6/after_months_of_antiimmigrant_violence_ireland/) with fines, or potential jail sentences, for failing to deal with misinformation that promotes violence. That’s good, but teaching critical thinking is even more important.

AI is about to make the threat of misinformation orders of magnitude greater. It is now possible to fake images, video, and audio indistinguishable from reality. We need new ways to combat this, and relying on top-down approaches isn’t enough. There’s another likely consequence – expect lots of social media misinformation telling you how bad critical thinking is. The people who use misinformation don’t want smart, informed people who can spot them lying.

Everyone that has basic understanding of logic and critical thinking will never vote or trust far right ideas.