By Martina Chapman The Digital News Report 2020 (Ireland) shows that 62% of Irish people are concerned about what is real and what is fake online. It is very important to raise awareness of the volume of false or misleading information as well as its impact and the risks, which is why it is useful to hear
By Isabelle Courtney 26th May 2020 There is no doubt that the Coronavirus has led to an explosion of new words and phrases and this new vocabulary, in many ways helps us make sense of the world we now inhabit. Among the plethora of new terms, Infodemic, is increasingly being used in relation to the rise in COVID-19
Covid-19 has changed how a lot of us, especially our children, are learning and gaining valuable insights into parenting needs in relation to online safety and digital literacy is more important than ever. The Council of Europe are undertaking a new parenting survey on digital citizenship education and are inviting all parents, grandparents, carers and
By Rebecca Lennon, Regulatory Affairs Advisor at Ofcom. As a response to the Covid-19 outbreak, Ofcom has been looking at how people are getting news and information about the crisis. We have been carrying out an online Covid-19 news and information survey of 2,000 UK participants aged 16 and over each week since the beginning of the lockdown.
By Eileen Culloty Dr Eileen Culloty is a postdoctoral researcher at the DCU FuJo Institute where she works on countering disinformation as part of the EU Provenance project. As older people cocoon at home, digital technology is a vital source of connection. At the end of April, Age Action launched the Getting Started Kit, a set of seven guides
Laura Millar is a Canadian archival consultant, author and editor. She is the author of A Matter of Facts: The Value of Evidence in an Information Age, published in 2019 by ALA Neal Schuman. In 1922, not long after the Spanish flu ceased its deadly rampage, the British economist and Director of the Bank of England Sir
For several weeks now, the world has rightly been consumed with talk of COVID-19. For Facebook, it has been no different. Globally, our entire company is focused on doing our bit to tackle the coronavirus outbreak. We are approaching this in four ways. For several weeks now, the world has rightly been consumed with talk
COVID-19 dominates a large part of our lives at the moment and we know that we all have a part to play in fighting the virus. In addition to the HSE recommendations (washing hands, physical distancing and respiratory etiquette), MLI members can also help to fight the virus of misinformation circulating in relation to COVID19.