The European
Commission Vice-President for Values and Transparency, Věra Jourová, invited
representatives from DCU’s FuJo Institute and EDMO Ireland for a meeting to
discuss EDMO’s actions to combat disinformation in Ireland as well as the
proposed European Media Freedom Act and the Strengthened Code of Practice on
Disinformation.
The Vice-President
and her team met with representatives from FuJo and EDMO Ireland including the
Disinformation Lead (Kirsty Park), Media Literacy Coordinator (Ricardo
Castellini da Silva), Managing Editor at Journal Media (Susan Daly) and Chief
Product Officer at Newswhip (Dervilla Mullan) as well as FuJo Director Jane
Suiter and FuJo member Roddy Flynn who is the Irish partner in the EU Media
Pluralism Monitor Project.
Vice-President
Jourová’s portfolio includes countering disinformation, freedom of the press
and media pluralism, and identifying risks to plurality in the media sector.
Throughout the meeting the team described the process involved in fact-checking
and monitoring disinformation as part of the hub, future media literacy
projects in the planning stages, and FuJo’s experiences in monitoring the Code
of Practice and in compiling the Media Pluralism Monitor for Ireland.
Funded by the
European Union, EDMO Ireland is coordinated by FuJo at DCU and
brings together The University of Sheffield's NLP Group, Newswhip and The
Journal FactCheck to collaborate on countering disinformation, promoting media
literacy, and supporting quality journalism.
