Instead of media literacy, which is about critically receiving information, we changed our entire basic education curriculum to be about competence, which is about practicing journalism from a very young student level and so on. So nowadays, I think we have a higher antibody to the information integrity threats, as well as a more capable civil society, social sector, when it comes to countering this kind of emerging threats, without which we will be pressured as other Asian jurisdictions and indeed around the world are, to impose some top-down, lockdown, take down measures.

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