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Disinformation and Digital Literacy

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It’s almost three years since “fake news” became a major talking point and the problem seems more intractable than ever. The major online platforms are awash with conspiracy theories, disinformation, and extremist propaganda. The alarming implications are evident across the world. Disinformation about vaccines is linked to a global rise in preventable diseases. Ireland had

Conference of the Centre for Critical Media Literacy

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A vision of media literacy that is inclusive, active and hopeful – but also realistic, informed by scientific and social understanding of emerging technologies, how we use them and the corporations that foist them on us: that was the vision on offer at the third annual conference of the Centre for Critical Media Literacy in