As a part of the European Media Literacy Week a conversation on media literacy took place on 21th March in Trubar literature house in Ljubljana. The event was organized by the Slovene Association of Journalists and Časoris – Slovenia’s newspaper for kids. Participants from media, government, education, and non-governmental organizations addressed the importance of media literacy in society in which fake news and other forms of disinformation influence election results...Read More
European Commission – Statement Brussels, 28 February 2019 European Commission published reports by Facebook, Google and Twitter covering the progress made in January 2019 on their commitments to fight disinformation. These three online platforms are signatories of the Code of Practice against disinformation and have been asked to report monthly on their actions ahead of the European Parliament elections in May 2019. More specifically, the Commission asked to receive detailed...Read More
The Riga conference on Disinformation and fake news challenge to democracy, as well as the international survey on disinformation, was only a kick-off activity for a year-long project “Smart E-democracy Against Fake News (SMARTeD)” On 30th of Nov 8 organisations from 7 EU countries came together to develop a methodology for workshops that will be put in practice already next year all over Europe! Workshops aim to raise practical awareness...Read More
On 29th of November, 2018, organisation ManaBalss hosted an international conference “Disinformation and fake news challenge to democracy”! What a great event it was with a lots of knowledgeable speakers, fresh ideas and even better audience! During the conference the preliminary results of survey on disinformation and fake news (carried out in 6 EU member states – CZ, EE, FR, LV, SL, GR) were also presented. According to the report,...Read More
