Data literacy is the ability to transform data into information and information back into data.
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 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 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.
Read MoreMoscow Declaration on Media and Information Literacy
Media and Information Literacy MIL is defined as a combination of knowledge, attitudes, skills, and practices required to access, analyse, evaluate, use, produce, and communicate information and knowledge in creative, legal and ethical ways that respect human rights.
Read MoreWhat is personal data?
Personal data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable living individual.
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