Perhaps in the future we will get a ‘dislike’ button to combat fake news and the like.
Read MoreEU: Action Plan against Disinformation
To increase public awareness and resilience, the Commission will further step up its commitment and current activities in relation to media literacy to empower Union citizens to better identify and deal with disinformation.
Read MoreDenialism drives people to reject the truth
How do we respond to people who have radically different desires and morals from our own? How do we respond to people who delight in or are indifferent to genocide, to the suffering of millions, to venality and greed?
Read MoreWhat about Health Literacy
Health literacy is to be able to use healthcare information and services.
Read MoreTackling Online Disinformation
The EU Commission proposes an EU-wide Code of Practice on Disinformation, support for an independent network of fact-checkers, and tools to stimulate quality journalism.
Read MoreGlobal Media and Information Literacy Week 2018
Creative projects, the latest research, new ideas, and information across countries and stakeholders involved in MIL, and in print, screen-based and digital media.
Read MoreFive Laws of Media and Information Literacy
We are travelling towards the universality of books, the Internet and all forms of “containers of knowledge”. Media and information literacy for all should be seen as a nexus of human rights.
Read MoreVideo: Cancer Cure?
A deceptive cancer cure video went viral and reminded people to be skeptical.
Read MoreWhy Informationskompetenz is not equivalent to Information Literacy
The German notion of Informationskompetenz (information competence) expresses the ability to use and create information as the educational goal of information literacy instruction (Vermittlung). The English “Information literacy” emphasises the conceptual understandings of information use and information creation as a standardized state.
Read MoreSpreading true and false news online
False news was more novel than true news, which suggests that people were more likely to share novel information.
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