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Voices - European Festival of Journalism and Media Literacy in #Zagreb in 2025! Lie Detectors is heading to Zagreb, Croatia, next spring! As part of the VOICES Festival that celebrates media literacy, ethical journalism and media pluralism, we'll be in the beautiful Muzej suvremene umjetnosti February 28 to March 1, 2025. Pre-register now https://lnkd.in/g9uk-BbR and take part in meetings, discussions, workshops, screenings and award ceremonies around the topic of journalism, democracy and education. Lie Detectors will host several training workshops, with registration details to come. If you are developing innovative journalism and media literacy formats, apply to win one of ten VOICES awards worth €1,000 each: https://bit.ly/47ZdHWN. VOICES is co-funded by the #EU and brings together Lie Detectors, European Broadcasting Union (EBU), European Federation of Journalists, European University Institute, Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom (CMPF), Savoir*Devenir, EAVI - Media Literacy for Citizenship and Association Journalisme et citoyenneté. Pre-register now: https://lnkd.in/g9uk-BbR #JournalismMatters #MediaLiteracyforAll #Croatia

🏢 Investigative journalism, media literacy, local training afternoons – welcome to Publix, a new centre for #journalism, strengthening #democracy, shaping the public sphere…… and, a home for Lie Detectors’ Team Germany in #Berlin. 🇩🇪   It’s more than six years since the first conversations about this six-storey initiative between Tim Göbel, Mia Pascale Bergert , our Juliane von Reppert-Bismarck and the late Wilfried Ruetten. We’re excited to have our Germany team - Annkatrin Kaiser, Maxime-Robert Grewe, Cindy Mireya Sanchez Fernandez (who are all in the picture), Marica Taime Rauschnick and our Education Strategy Adviser Annemieke Akkermans – move into the building. 🚛   We say a big hello to our new neighbours! It’s wonderful to be able to undertake our work alongside Germany’s flagship media literacy alliance Journalismus macht Schule and pioneering fact-checkers CORRECTIV as well as Reporters Without Borders (RSF), Investigate Europe, More in Common Deutschland, Tactical Tech, Diskutier Mit Mir, Seek Initiative, Netzwerk Recherche, laif foundation for independent photojournalism, Reporterfabrik and Superrr Labs in our state of the art office building. 😎   Thanks to the new location, Lie Detectors will offer local training events for Berlin’s educational community. Watch this space for more information.   You can check out Publix's website here: https://www.publix.de/en/

Great work Caroline Becker. Thanks so much for your successful participation. You're making an important difference for the hundreds of children you meet. 

We’ll be standing alongside our partners at Journalismus macht Schule on 6 June as part of the #IchStehAuf campaign in support of democracy and diversity.   Thanks to Lisa Kuner for visiting Carl-von-Linné-Grundschule in #Leipzig on the campaign day to promote media literacy. It is one of more than 400 school visits that Lie Detectors participating journalists will make this year in #Germany.   Thanks to Robert Bosch Stiftung and the Heidehof Stiftung in cooperation with ZEIT Verlagsgruppe and ARD for the campaign initiative.     #EmpoweredCitizens #Democracy #Journalism

Hello, hello! 🧡This week part of our team travelled to #Zagreb to start preparing the second edition of #Voices in 🇭🇷 What elements would be essential to you for an appealing #festival evening? Let's plan things together! ➡️Drop your suggestions here: https://lnkd.in/dK__C5D4 #Journalism #MediaLiteracy European Broadcasting Union (EBU) European Federation of Journalists EAVI - Media Literacy for Citizenship Savoir*Devenir Lie Detectors Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies

🌐 As part of my traineeship at Lie Detectors, I had the privilege of attending a highly informative workshop on platform data access for researchers, organized by European Digital Media Observatory. This workshop delved into the rapidly evolving landscape of data access for researchers, underscored by the 2022 Strengthened Code of Practice on Online Disinformation and the legal obligations set by article 40 of #DSA. Key Takeaways: 🔍 Online platforms are now legally required to provide researchers with access to non-personal, anonymized, and aggregated data through APIs. ⚙️ Despite the introduction of new tools for data access, significant challenges persist, such as limited awareness, restricted access for civil society researchers, and complex application procedures. The workshop took place in the overall framework of the #EDMO annual conference, in Brussels, where media and policy practitioners, policymakers, academics, regulators, journalists, and members of civil society convene to discuss the challenges of online #disinformation and how to tackle them.

#EDMO week continues with fascinating insights into how easy or rather challenging it is to enforce rules and monitor co-regulatory protocols across the EU that are designed to counter #disinformation and its monetisation. Thanks for great presentations this morning by Keith Peter Kiely , Wojciech Paczynski and to the entire community working on this important task.

Heute morgen habe ich im ZDF MoMa gleich 3x die Chance bekommen zu erklären, warum #FakeNews ein Problem für unsere Demokratie darstellen und wie man sie erkennt: Zum Beispiel mit Lie Detectors oder Journalismus macht Schule. Danke für die Fragen Philip Wortmann, Mirjam Meinhardt und Harriet von Waldenfels! Hier geht's zum Beitrag: 👉 https://lnkd.in/e69anp7a

2024 #EDMO annual conference kicks off today, a two-day Brussels gathering that will spotlight #AI, EU elections, platform regulation and evaluation techniques as seen by European fact-checkers and media literacy experts, EU officials and VLOP representatives. I’m delighted to present - first thing Tuesday - the protocols we’ve developed at Lie Detectors to safeguard #quality and measure #impact in media literacy. I’ll be talking about creating trust in the education space, adhering to expert consensus, and the urgent question of measuring and quantifying the impact on society of our community’s crucial media literacy work. Stop by at 09:00 CET ON Tuesday or come find me at any other time. I’m thrilled to be there with Lie Detectors colleagues Rayan Temara Valentina Milanese Lies Feron. And looking forward to catching up with dear colleagues and allies in the field.

That was fun! I have been a journalist for about 15 years now and pretty much from the beginning I've been involved with this whole disinformation topic. A couple of years ago I started visiting classrooms for Lie Detectors to talk with kids about how they can find out if what they see on TikTok and elswhere is true or not. This week, at the European Conference »Empowering Students in the Digital Age« in Munich, together with Annemieke Akkermans, I got to give a workshop for a room full of teachers from all over Europe. We talked about how they can give their students back home some effectivs tools against disinformation. And I'd like to believe that we had a good time doing so.