Serge Barbet is a Franco-Argentine specialist in media and citizenship education. He is currently the head of CLEMI (Centre for Education in Media and Information), a Réseau Canopé service created by the Ministry of National Education, in charge of media education throughout the French educational system. Barbet is a former print journalist and ministerial advisor in charge of citizenship education. He defends the idea that media education should offer each student the necessary means to develop their critical spirit in the face of misinformation, hate speech and algorithmic biases that limit open-mindedness.