Empower educators to protect society, students from fake news


Now, if there's one group of people in society the media love to highlight (aside from politicians), it's educators.

This could be because quoting an educator (be it a lecturer, teacher or researcher, etc) adds more credibility to a news report. Slap on a 'Dr' to that name and add 'Professor' for good measure, and well, coverage goes into hyperdrive.

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Danial Rahman

Danial Rahman

Danial Rahman has education close to his heart. He tweets at @danial_ari and welcomes feedback at danialrahman0330@gmail.com.

   

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