By Dr. Alison Preston, Co-Director, Making Sense of Media Ofcom has a statutory duty to promote media literacy, and the UK Government intends to further strengthen Ofcom’s role in this area with the passage of the Online Safety Bill. Making Sense of Media is Ofcom’s programme of work to help improve the online media literacy
This is a call for innovative solutions of a technological or digital nature that will help to optimize, streamline and automate the processes of verification of contents (fact-checking) in any of the following phases: – Traceability of the origin of the information. Identification of actors, vectors and channels that encourage the viralization of fake news.– Monitoring of media, social networks and messaging
Misleading information can be intentional (think fake news) or unintentional (by not following accepted conventions). In turn, we share the information we encounter on WhatsApp or Facebook, believing it to be true only to realize later that it was wrong. Let’s be honest, it has happened to most of us. Data literacy skills are the
An information crisis “Across the world, all spheres of life have become subject to false information, conspiracy theories, and propaganda. These information pathologies are implicated in the global resurgence of vaccine preventable diseases, the subversion of national politics, and the amplification of social divisions. In 2018, the United Nations Human Rights Council cited Facebook as
This is a €25 million, five year commitment to support the European University Institute, the European Digital Media Observatoryand the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and help independent projects that focus on boosting critical thinking, expanding fact checking and combating misinformation. Google notes that there is unmet demand, with fewer than one in 10 Europeans having participated in any form of
This week (Wednesday, 10 March), Facebook launched a new media literacy campaign in partnership with the WHO and our European fact-checking partners to educate people on how to spot false vaccination news ‘Together Against Covid-19 Misinformation’ rolled out to Facebook and Instagram Newsfeeds through a series of ads encouraging people to connect with accurate information
The 50-minute long educational video was created to accompany an online exhibition where students can explore, for instance, how our phones are designed to grab out attention; how deepfakes are created; and how tech companies use our data in many different ways. The exhibition is available online through this link https://theglassroom.org/misin… The educational video can be
Teachers who help students learn about the importance of press freedom will be honoured by a special award in the 2021 edition of the Global Youth & News Media Prize. The Press Freedom Teacher Award will recognise excellence in assuring that students develop a thorough understanding of the crucial role of journalism in society and of the