Get Your Facts Straight! is a project that provides
media literacy education through workshops about
disinformation and
fake news on social media to young people and their parents. As a result, a training toolkit for supporting educators and training providers was produced by the project partners that helps to implement a 10-hour
media literacy training course about
disinformation on social media for 14-16 year old young people. The toolkit outlines the training course, provides its methodology and lists the relevant resources for the course. The project was funded by Call for proposals Preparatory Action 09 05 77 06 “
Media Literacy for all”.
EAVI – the European Association for Viewers Interests – is an international non-profit organisation registered in Brussels which advocates media literacy and full citizenship. EAVI supports the adoption of initiatives that enable citizens read, write and participate in public life through the media.
The technical, cognitive, social, civic and creative capacities that allow us to access and have a critical understanding of and interact with media. These capacities allow us to exercise critical thinking, while participating in the economic, social and cultural aspects of society and playing an active role in the democratic process. This concept covers different media: broadcasting, radio, press, through various channels: traditional, internet, social media and addresses the needs of all ages.
The technical, cognitive, social, civic and creative capacities that allow us to access and have a critical understanding of and interact with media. These capacities allow us to exercise critical thinking, while participating in the economic, social and cultural aspects of society and playing an active role in the democratic process. This concept covers different media: broadcasting, radio, press, through various channels: traditional, internet, social media and addresses the needs of all ages.
False information or propaganda published under the guise of being authentic news. Fake news websites and channels push their fake news content in an attempt to mislead consumers about the content and spread false facts via social networks and word-of-mouth. The official term used for fake news is information disorder.
False information created with the intent to harm a person, group or country. It can include imposter content, false context, manipulated content and fabricated content (Wardle and Derakhshan, 2017). Misinformation becomes disinformation when the creator or multiplier of the information has the intent to mislead the recipient (Karlova and Fisher, 2013).
