The spread of disinformation and misinformation can have harmful effects, create polarising debates, spread propaganda and challenges our societies and democracies. The European Commission, jointly with the other institutions, is promoting the fight against disinformation through a number of action plans, large-scale disinformation campaigns and launching observatories for fact-checking across Member States.
To tackle these negative phenomena, the EU promotes media literacy education, raising skills and competences for critical and analytical thinking and promoting recommendations to combat the spread of fake news and propaganda. The project Fake News Hunters is a training course aimed at young people, youth workers and journalists who wish to raise skills and competences for critical thinking and media literacy, learn new ways for fact-checking and jointly combat the spread of disinformation and fake news. Participants in the training will improve 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.
The specific objectives of the training course are:
- To get 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
- To make sound decisions when decoding media messages and contribute to public discourse
Venue: Varna, Bulgaria
Duration: 18 – 24 June 2023
Countries: Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia and Serbia
Participants: Youth workers/emerging journalist enthusiasts (no age limit) from 6 European countries
Infopack is available here.
Registration for Bulgarian participants
The project is funded by the European Commission under the Erasmus+ program.
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