By Dr. Alison Preston, Co-Director, Making Sense of Media Ofcom has a statutory duty to promote media literacy, and the UK Government intends to further strengthen Ofcom’s role in this area with the passage of the Online Safety Bill. Making Sense of Media is Ofcom’s programme of work to help improve the online media literacy
This is a call for innovative solutions of a technological or digital nature that will help to optimize, streamline and automate the processes of verification of contents (fact-checking) in any of the following phases: – Traceability of the origin of the information. Identification of actors, vectors and channels that encourage the viralization of fake news.– Monitoring of media, social networks and messaging
Misleading information can be intentional (think fake news) or unintentional (by not following accepted conventions). In turn, we share the information we encounter on WhatsApp or Facebook, believing it to be true only to realize later that it was wrong. Let’s be honest, it has happened to most of us. Data literacy skills are the
An information crisis “Across the world, all spheres of life have become subject to false information, conspiracy theories, and propaganda. These information pathologies are implicated in the global resurgence of vaccine preventable diseases, the subversion of national politics, and the amplification of social divisions. In 2018, the United Nations Human Rights Council cited Facebook as
Be Media Smart previously ran as a public awareness campaign in 2019 and 2020. This year, the initiative will run from April to September at a time when there is a particular need for people to make informed choices about the Covid-19 vaccination based on accurate and reliable information. Be Media Smart ads will be encouraging
Focusing on Media Literacy in Ireland this month, the webinar will start with an Introduction to Media Literacy in Ireland. During this part of the webinar, Stephanie Comey, Senior Manager in the BAI with responsibility for Media Literacy, will provide an overview of the status of Media Literacy in Ireland, describe the relevant policy framework and the extent to
This is a €25 million, five year commitment to support the European University Institute, the European Digital Media Observatoryand the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and help independent projects that focus on boosting critical thinking, expanding fact checking and combating misinformation. Google notes that there is unmet demand, with fewer than one in 10 Europeans having participated in any form of
This week (Wednesday, 10 March), Facebook launched a new media literacy campaign in partnership with the WHO and our European fact-checking partners to educate people on how to spot false vaccination news ‘Together Against Covid-19 Misinformation’ rolled out to Facebook and Instagram Newsfeeds through a series of ads encouraging people to connect with accurate information