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Updated guidelines on tackling disinformation and promoting digital literacy through education and training
Disinformation brochure
Distinguishing truth from falsehood in the digital age is more challenging than ever.
Nowadays, disinformation can spread fast. Social networks and messaging platforms enable the large-scale sharing of false information, often automated and supported by artificial intelligence (AI), making it appear surprisingly authentic. But how can we tell what is true from what is false?
CIS Digital Camp 2025: empowering young people for a safer and more aware digital future
Webwise Webinar: In Conversation with Mark Little: From misinformation to manipulation
With so much information at our fingertips, it can be difficult to judge if what we are seeing, reading or hearing online is accurate and reliable.
The increasing influence of algorithms and AI has made it even more challenging to find truth and trust on the internet.
To discuss this, regulation, living in a new era of manipulation online, and how to navigate these challenges, Mark Little, journalist and entrepreneur, joined a recent Webwise webinar.
Donald Duck teaches children about online safety
Media literacy in Finland: national media education policy
Media literacy in Finland is the media literacy policy and the national media education policy document, published by the Ministry of Education and Culture in 2019. The document updates and extends the cultural policy guidelines for media literacy published in 2013.
The 2022 Code of Practice on Disinformation
The Code brings together industry to voluntarily combat online disinformation. In 2021, the Commission published guidance to make it even stronger, so that the online environment will be more clear, safe and reliable, including for children and other vulnerable groups. Facebook, Google and Twitter, Mozilla, Microsoft and TikTok, among others, have signed up. Best practice includes examples of fact-checking resources, and prioritizing news from trusted sources. An updated Code will be published in March 2022.
(Source: EC Compendium of BIK-related legislation).
Towards inclusive media literacy: instructional principles
The instructional principles for inclusive media literacy help media educators in different fields to reflect and find ways to improve their own practice. Below you will find a PDF and a video series for your convenience. More than 100 professionals developing and implementing media literacy or media-related skills in their own practice have been consulted in the process of creating the instructional principles. The principles are based on a survey and individual interviews of professionals.
Law on the Protection of Minors Against the Detrimental Effect of Public Information
This law establishes provisions to protect minors from the negative impacts and potential harms of accessing public information. It also specifies responsibilities and duties to producers, journalists, disseminators, and other professionals in the media field. It was amended in 2021 to harmonise with the Directive 2010/13/EU.
(Source: BIK Policy Monitor 2024).
