Books, pens, notebooks... it’s that time of year 📚!
As the new school year begins, we know addressing topics such as #disinformation with students can be challenging. But no worries, teachers—we’ve got you covered!
Our toolkit on ‘how to spot and fight disinformation’ is the perfect resource to equip your students with key online skills:
✏️ Understanding disinformation
📏 Recognizing how it spreads
📘 Learning how to respond
Check it out → https://europa.eu/!JB9JDn
@EUCommission what about information in EU organs?
https://digitalcourage.social/@echo_pbreyer/113055344697932869
@EUCommission very suspicious of you making a focus on it while fighting digital privacy and arresting Pavel Durov ngl...
@EUCommission Let knowledge serve the people hermits and book burners are not allowed.
@EUCommission I’m sure the presentation will include the numerous US government-connected disinformation campaigns…
…right? 🤨
@EUCommission This seems notably lacking when there are approaches like Lateral Reading (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3048994 ) & SIFT ( https://hapgood.us/2019/06/19/sift-the-four-moves/ ) out there. In terms of specifics: slide 17 ("When in doubt check") puts what Lateral Reading & SIFT centre (trusted coverage of others) as final point - that slide also centres things that feature in a dated checklist approach to evaluating sources discussed here https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:qq566ny0539/Instructional%20Approaches%20to%20Spotting%20Misinformation%20%28in%20press%29%20College%20%26%20Research%20Libraries.pdf . It also over relies on official factchecks in place of tools
@EUCommission
Also worth reading on the subject of disinformation:
https://www.newsguardtech.com/special-reports/grok-ai-new-image-generator-is-a-willing-misinformation-superspreader/
@EUCommission
Very nice overview with some pointers for the more interested to follow. Worth a skim even for adults! Hell, I've definitely slipped into some of the pitfalls this points out even though I should know better.
@EUCommission
I think a big part is also self-worth. One of the main tactics of brainwashing is to attack someone's self-worth. To make sure they don't trust their own thoughts and will trust yours instead.
Most conspiracy theories don't make sense but people don't trust their own common sense and rather outsource the thinking the influencers.