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Profile last updated: January 2025

About our SID activities

Many children and young people come into contact with misinformation, (deep)fakes and populist or extremist content online. During this year's Safer Internet Day month of activities, together with the partner organisations of the German Safer Internet Centre, FSM is organising the interactive campaign “No likes for lies”, focussing on educating and empowering children and young people to recognise false information as well as populist and extremist narratives. In two major events students as well as education professionals and parents will be addressed:

At a nationwide interactive digital school lesson on 11 February 2025 for pupils in grades 8 to 10 the German Safer Internet Centre aims to empower young people to recognise extremist narratives and manipulative deepfakes in social media and arm themselves against them. Following the digital school lesson FSM is further part of a panel discussion on the topic.

On 18 February a webinar will be conducted for educational professionals, multipliers, parents and anyone else interested in learning more about how to deal with populist and extremist (deep) fakes on the internet. Experts from the German Safer Internet Centre partner organisations will provide information on the challenges and options for dealing with such online content. To contextualise current discussions the most relevant information will additionally be published as an online resource at the end of the Safer Internet month.

Within the Safer Internet month 2025 FSM further is informing and supporting parents and families: Its media educational project Elternguide.online is organising a virtual parents' evening on 13 February 2025. The event “Insulting, exposing, threatening - how you can educate your child about cyberbullying in an age-appropriate way and protect them” will focus on the phenomenon of cyberbullying. Parents will learn how to support and protect their child online as well as get to know resources and counselling services. Parents will receive information and practical tips for their media education at home to help them talk about cyberbullying in the family.

Furthermore, FSM will actively take part in an hybrid event for school classes realised by the initiative “Wake Up!” on Safer Internet Day raising awareness of the potential consequences of disinformation on our society.

In addition to these events FSM will highlight the important work of the FSM hotline as well its media education projects for families and teachers through a social media campaign on Safer Internet Day.
 

What we are doing to create a better internet...

Together with its member companies and associations, the FSM is doing important work to strengthen youth media protection and keep in check online media content that is illegal or harmful to young people or impairs their development.

The FSM engages in extensive educational work and promoting media literacy for children and adults. With partners, we have developed an internet guide for parents to support media education within families as well as a platform for teaching materials called "Media goes to School", school materials and toolkits regarding digital and social media for teachers, as well as a blended learning teacher training programme on misinformation online called "weitklick".

Furthermore, the FSM operates a hotline that any user can call on to report online content that is criminal or harmful to young persons. It is member of INHOPE, the International Association of Internet Hotlines, for combating illegal content on the internet, particularly depictions of child abuse. The FSM hotline is also a partner of the EU funded German Safer Internet Centers together with the awareness center klicksafe, the helpline “Nummer gegen Kummer” and the hotlines of eco and jugendschutz.net.

About us

The German Association for Voluntary Self-Regulation of Digital Media service providers (FSM e. V.) is a non-profit registered association concerned with the protection of young people in online media. Working within the system of regulated self-regulation introduced by the German interstate treaty on the protection of minors in the media (JMStV) in 2003, the FSM is the recognised self-regulation organisation in the telemedia sector.

FSM operates a hotline through which everyone can report online content which is illegal or harmful to young people. As such the FSM is part of the German Safer Internet Centre. Furthermore, the FSM engages in extensive educational work and promoting media literacy for children, parents and families, as well as teachers and educators.

Profile last updated: January 2025

About our SID activities

Many children and young people come into contact with misinformation, (deep)fakes and populist or extremist content online. During this year's Safer Internet Day month of activities, together with the partner organisations of the German Safer Internet Centre, FSM is organising the interactive campaign “No likes for lies”, focussing on educating and empowering children and young people to recognise false information as well as populist and extremist narratives. In two major events students as well as education professionals and parents will be addressed:

At a nationwide interactive digital school lesson on 11 February 2025 for pupils in grades 8 to 10 the German Safer Internet Centre aims to empower young people to recognise extremist narratives and manipulative deepfakes in social media and arm themselves against them. Following the digital school lesson FSM is further part of a panel discussion on the topic.

On 18 February a webinar will be conducted for educational professionals, multipliers, parents and anyone else interested in learning more about how to deal with populist and extremist (deep) fakes on the internet. Experts from the German Safer Internet Centre partner organisations will provide information on the challenges and options for dealing with such online content. To contextualise current discussions the most relevant information will additionally be published as an online resource at the end of the Safer Internet month.

Within the Safer Internet month 2025 FSM further is informing and supporting parents and families: Its media educational project Elternguide.online is organising a virtual parents' evening on 13 February 2025. The event “Insulting, exposing, threatening - how you can educate your child about cyberbullying in an age-appropriate way and protect them” will focus on the phenomenon of cyberbullying. Parents will learn how to support and protect their child online as well as get to know resources and counselling services. Parents will receive information and practical tips for their media education at home to help them talk about cyberbullying in the family.

Furthermore, FSM will actively take part in an hybrid event for school classes realised by the initiative “Wake Up!” on Safer Internet Day raising awareness of the potential consequences of disinformation on our society.

In addition to these events FSM will highlight the important work of the FSM hotline as well its media education projects for families and teachers through a social media campaign on Safer Internet Day.
 

What we are doing to create a better internet...

Together with its member companies and associations, the FSM is doing important work to strengthen youth media protection and keep in check online media content that is illegal or harmful to young people or impairs their development.

The FSM engages in extensive educational work and promoting media literacy for children and adults. With partners, we have developed an internet guide for parents to support media education within families as well as a platform for teaching materials called "Media goes to School", school materials and toolkits regarding digital and social media for teachers, as well as a blended learning teacher training programme on misinformation online called "weitklick".

Furthermore, the FSM operates a hotline that any user can call on to report online content that is criminal or harmful to young persons. It is member of INHOPE, the International Association of Internet Hotlines, for combating illegal content on the internet, particularly depictions of child abuse. The FSM hotline is also a partner of the EU funded German Safer Internet Centers together with the awareness center klicksafe, the helpline “Nummer gegen Kummer” and the hotlines of eco and jugendschutz.net.

About us

The German Association for Voluntary Self-Regulation of Digital Media service providers (FSM e. V.) is a non-profit registered association concerned with the protection of young people in online media. Working within the system of regulated self-regulation introduced by the German interstate treaty on the protection of minors in the media (JMStV) in 2003, the FSM is the recognised self-regulation organisation in the telemedia sector.

FSM operates a hotline through which everyone can report online content which is illegal or harmful to young people. As such the FSM is part of the German Safer Internet Centre. Furthermore, the FSM engages in extensive educational work and promoting media literacy for children, parents and families, as well as teachers and educators.

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