KNOW FAKE
A project to combat disinformation

Program Erasmus+, Co-operation partnerships in adult education
Project-Nr.: Nr.2022-1-DE02-KA220-ADU-000089332
Projektdauer: 01/10/2022 – 30/09/2024

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Position Paper

Project description

Because people around the world are confronted with an increasing spread of false information that threatens to destabilise democratic institutions and undermine citizens’ trust in them.

Fake news and the associated disinformation of citizens has increased dramatically in recent years. The coronavirus pandemic in particular has highlighted the importance of digital literacy with conspiracy narratives and false reports that are harmful to health. The whole of Europe has set itself the task of “combating disinformation”.

KNOW FAKE wants to make an important contribution to this. After all, media literacy is more important today than ever before. Media literacy includes: the analytical examination of forms of media communication, e.g. news in social networks; the promotion of critical thinking; the reflection of the various interests that determine the content, selection and form of the communication of information; the teaching of practical strategies to see through mechanisms of manipulation and to be able to discuss them better. In the fight against disinformation, everyone is called upon.

Combating misinformation and disinformation as well as foreign interference and influence on elections requires different political countermeasures. In families, people come together who are informed by different sources of information and often get into heated arguments about it. In the last two years of the pandemic in particular, this has often led to divisions, exclusions and separation. KNOW FAKE aims to empower families and give them a playful opportunity to learn about and analyse the background and workings of fake news and its principles using a modern analogue card game (multilingual).

The results and dissemination of KNOW FAKE will strengthen families as a learning environment for digital literacy. The innovative result of KNOW FAKE will also be disseminated as an opportunity for school and extracurricular education in youth centres and can be used in a low-threshold manner.

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