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EAVI Conducts Media Literacy Workshop at the Autistic Women’s Retreat 2018

EAVI — Wed, 26 Sep 2018 13:31:10 +0000

On 22 September, EAVI attended the 2018 Autistic Women’s Retreat in Oxfordshire, UK to hold a workshop on media literacy for 15 participants – all autistic women from Britain, USA and Sweden. The workshop focused on media literacy concepts, and specific issues facing autistic women in their relationship with the media, both in terms [...]

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European Commission: Fake News and Online Disinformation

EAVI — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 10:15:21 +0000

The European Commission has published its High Level Expert Group (HLEG) Report to advise the EC on fake news and disinformation online.

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Media Literacy Workshop (KIDS)

EAVI — Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:21:49 +0000

EAVI visited Stokeinteignhead School in Devon, UK, on 16 November 2017 to deliver a workshop introducing 10 and 11 year olds to media literacy.

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Beyond The Headlines – The Online News Verification Game

EAVI — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 15:03:21 +0000

Beyond The Headlines is EAVI's online news verification game. We developed it with the help of some of EAVI's individual members and have tested it at our Beyond Fake News workshop at ECAS with a great response.

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Beyond Fake News Workshop – September 26, Brussels

EAVI — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 13:32:35 +0000

EAVI’s Beyond Fake News Workshop took place on 26 September 2017, in association with ECAS. It was attended by 20 professionals from various international organisations, local and national governments and NGOs.

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Beyond Fake News – A Workshop on Media Literacy and Fact Checking

EAVI — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 08:54:37 +0000

We are now subject to media messages more than at any time in history. As the barriers to creating professional-looking multimedia content have been lifted, democratising content production and giving everyday people the opportunity to contribute, so too has the need to verify the reliability of this content. It has become increasingly difficult to [...]

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Infographic: Beyond Fake News – 10 Types of Misleading News – Seventeen Languages

EAVI — Wed, 26 Jul 2017 17:18:11 +0000

Introducing our new infographic 'Beyond Fake News' and some resources to use it with.

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Facebook’s Fake News Problem and What You Can Do to Stop It

EAVI — Mon, 21 Nov 2016 14:21:51 +0000

Post-truth was named word of the year by Oxford Dictionaries last week as the scramble to understand what exactly happened in the US election was well underway. One argument being forwarded is that the proliferation of fake news on Facebook may have influenced the result.

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