E-learning: "MOOC: How to spot Fake News?"

E-learning: "MOOC: How to spot Fake News?"
14-21 September 2020

The diversity of news distributed via social media communication channels exposes citizens, especially youth, to large scale disinformation including misleading and false information.

Propaganda, misinformation and Fake news have the potential to polarise public opinion, to promote violent extremism and hate speech and, ultimately, to undetermined democracies and reduce trust in the democratic processes.

In this context, tehre is a reduced level of commitment of youth in evaluating social media news. With this in mind, they aim to help youth workers to empowering young people to evaluate fake news and detect disinformation campaigns across social networks and the online environment.