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Why are social media platforms free
  • Resource
  • Lithuanian Safer Internet Centre
  • 17 December 2025

This leaflet explains the business models of social media, showing how user data and attention are monetised. It raises awareness of hidden costs behind “free” services and promotes critical digital literacy. It provides a valuable tool for teaching young people about media economics. 
 

Vinz et Lou cartoon "How do you recognize hidden ads?"
  • Resource
  • TRALALERE
  • 05 October 2023

Vinz and Lou discover that hidden advertising is everywhere on social networks! In this new episode, learn how to recognize hidden advertising, understand its impact and discover how to distinguish advertising from informative content, using 3 concrete examples to help you stay vigilant.

The video is accompanied by a teaching sheet for a one-hour workshop in a school or extra-curricular context.

School levels: Primary School/Middle School
Age group: 7-12 years old

Fake News and False News
  • Resource
  • Organizatia Salvati Copiii (Save the Children Romania)
  • 21 December 2021

Nearly a third of children believe that fake news cannot be presented on TV or on news sites. Half of the children rarely or never check the truth of the information found online.

Poster: Just a fake
  • Resource
  • National Audiovisual Institute (KAVI)
  • 16 December 2021

Just a fake poster helps to outline the means of misleading and also discuss the motives behind them. The poster is localized from the English poster of EAVI - Media Literacy for Citizenship.

Conspiracy myths - causes and consequences
  • Resource
  • Latvian Internet Association
  • 13 December 2021

More and more often we hear the terms disinformation, propaganda, manipulative interpretation of facts, conspiracy myths.
This material focuses on conspiracy myths, providing an understanding of why they exist, why some people believe in them and how they influence individual and societal beliefs.

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