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Remove, Reduce and Inform: Evolving Facebook’s misinformation policies during the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccine rollout

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By Stephanie Anderson, Public Policy Associate Manager, Facebook Since last writing to update members of Media Literacy Ireland (MLI) on Facebook’s company-wide efforts to tackle COVID-19 misinformation, there have been many notable moments in the course of the pandemic. While COVID-19 continues to unfortunately spread within our communities, the emergence of breakthrough vaccines offers hope for the

Remove, Reduce and Inform

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Since last writing to update members of Media Literacy Ireland (MLI) on Facebook’s company-wide efforts to tackle COVID-19 misinformation, there have been many notable moments in the course of the pandemic. While COVID-19 continues to unfortunately spread within our communities, the emergence of breakthrough vaccines offers hope for the future. Throughout the twists and turns of this

In Focus: Safer Internet Day 2021

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By Jane McGarrigle, Webwise. Safer Internet Day will take place on Tuesday 9th February 2021, this EU wide initiative promotes a safer internet for all users, especially young people. Webwise is responsible for the coordination and promotion of Safer Internet Day in Ireland and while the celebrations will look a little different this year, there

Call for tenders for service provider to design and implement media literacy training module for public libraries

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The Local Government Management Agency are looking to appoint an external Service Provider to design and implement a learning module to equip public library staff in Ireland with the skills needed to provide media literacy training to adult library users. The learning module should be developed in consultation with the stakeholders listed below and should

MLI Media Literacy Monday Webinar: Young People and Media Literacy – Perspectives | Practice | Potential

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In Focus: The News Literacy Project

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By Carol McCarthy, Director of Communications, The News Literacy Project. The News Literacy Project (NLP) is a nonpartisan national education nonprofit that provides programs and resources for educators and the public to teach, learn and share the skills needed to be smart, active consumers of news and information and equal and engaged participants in a democracy.

Sky initiative ‘The Edit’ offers young people the opportunity to develop digital skills for the future

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By Mark Carpenter, Head of Strategy & Corporate Affairs, Sky Ireland. The Edit will provide primary and secondary schools across UK & Ireland with a platform and the training to produce broadcast news reports from script to screen. With the use of Adobe’s creative tools and Sky’s content, young people can enter their climate change

Watch Again: Media Literacy Monday Webinars

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With an over-arching theme exploring the power of collaboration, this series of webinars explored a range of topics with contributions from extremely well-placed experts in their field. MIL without Borders was the title of the first webinar which took place on the 2nd November 2020. With contributors from across Europe, this webinar explored what kind of collaboration