But in Taiwan, the journalists are held in very high regard. My parents are both journalists. And so, because of that, we say it is the journalists and the citizen journalists that are the antibodies, so to speak, against foreign information manipulation. So, instead of teaching the students digital literacy, which is about reading, consuming, we teach them instead digital and media competence, which is how to have a journalistic outlook and help on fact-checking, helping, for example, when the three presidential candidates were having a platform or debate, the high school students can correct their problems in their statements and even appear their name on national live stream TV and so on if they find something wrong and so on.

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