How prepared is the EU population to deal with disinformation? This was the question guiding a European project organized by eTwinning, an online educational platform…
Last week, EDMO Ireland’s media literacy coordinator Ricardo Castellini da Silva delivered a workshop entitled ‘The role of adult educators in the fight against disinformation’…
FuJo Deputy Director Dr. Eileen Culloty was invited to present expert testimony to a Joint Oireachtas Committee meeting on online disinformation and media literacy in…
The chapter, Disinformation about migration: an age-old issue with new tech dimensions, was written by Fujo researchers Eileen Culloty, Jane Suiter and Sara Creta, along…
There are many aspects to the fight against disinformation. One problem that fact-checkers and researchers are grappling with is how best to label false information.…
Over its long history, print media has developed visual conventions that help consumers differentiate between different kinds of news. Visually speaking, a broadsheet and a…
Disinformation is defined as the deliberate attempt to mislead. The consequences of it to democracy, humanitarianism and journalism are far-reaching – and nothing new. Disinformation…
Eileen Culloty and Jane Suiter have a chapter on anti-immigrant disinformation in The Routledge Companion to Media Disinformation and Populism. The book edited by Howard…
Irish 18-24s are among the most tech savvy and digitally immersed in Ireland and globally. This generation is digitally native and has a dizzying volume…
It’s almost three years since “fake news” became a major talking point and the problem seems more intractable than ever. The major online platforms are…