From 19 to 23 June, 18 participants from 6 partner NGOs: FECE (Bulgaria), OKO (Serbia), Youth for Equality (Slovakia), MultiKulti (Romania), Društvo Mladi Evropejci Gorenjska (Slovenia) and Fundacja Inkubator Innowacji (Poland), participated to the TC Fake News Hunters in Varna, Bulgaria.
The aim of the training course was to raise awareness of the negative effects of the spread of fake news and propaganda. The specific objectives of the training course were to acquainted with the European Commission’s actions plans in the field of the fight against disinformation, to get new knowledge on media literacy and critical thinking, to raise skills and competences to effectively fact-check the objectivity and biasness of media and news they consume, to learn ways on how to report objectively and with an attention to detail and to make sound decisions when decoding media messages and contribute to public discourse.
Through various non-formal methods, such as discussions, simulations, group work and role play, the participants explored different models for fact-checking and argumentation, improved their competences to effectively participate in society, by making informed choices, become hunters of fake news and be able to objectively report on news and events that are important for them.