Lessons from Eastern Europe — and the West, as noted at an event hosted by the U.S. Embassy Austria in the Amerika Haus, Vienna.
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 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 MoreNoble Lies, Fictions and Fake News
This posting is an extended version to the feedback on CEC’s roadmap “Communication on fake news and online misinformation”.
Read MoreWhat is Disinformation?
intentionally false or misleading information that is spread in a calculated way to deceive target audiences.
Read MoreFrom Greeks to Geeks
How we understand information, how we evaluate its credibility and how we distinguish it from disinformation and fake news; these are the components of what we see as information literacy. We think they are important because, as the great nineteenth century liberal reformers taught us, you cannot have a liberal society without a liberal education. In today’s world, without information literacy education is not education but indoctrination.
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