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Launch of the EDMO Guidelines for Effective Media Literacy Initiatives

EDMO’s guidelines and principles for effective media literacy initiatives aim to help increase the quality of media literacy across Europe. They have been developed by EDMO’s Working Group on Media Literacy Standards and Best Practices, with input from the EDMO Hubs along with other practitioners and experts during a consultation process, and are available on the EDMO website.

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Remembering Daphne Caruana Galizia on the 7th Anniversary of Her Murder

October 16, 2024 Photo: Daphne Caruana Galizia with Megan Mallia in 2001. Credit: Mandy Mallia 16th October 2024 By Megan Mallia Malta has a major disinformation problem as a consequence of a highly polarised political environment, and the problem got worse in the years following the assassination of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia on 16th

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Cyprus: Journalists trained on misinformation and content verification practices

Journalists working for the Cypriot media participated in the workshop on “Disinformation, Techniques and Tools for Content Verification”, co-organized on Monday 16 September 2024 at the premises of the Journalism Centre in Nicosia, by the Journalism Programme of the University of Cyprus and the Cyprus Union of Journalists within the auspices of the project “Mediterranean Digital Media Observatory – MedDMO”.

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University of Cyprus: Educational seminar for students on disinformation and content verification practices

July 10, 2024 An educational seminar on the topic of “Disinformation and Content Verification Practices” took place on Tuesday, July 2, 2024, at the University of Cyprus (UCY) in Nicosia. The event was aimed at high school students (aged 15 to 18) and was conducted within the context of the MedDMO and the 2024 UCY

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MedDMO – funded project presented at AAAI Conference in the US

June 20, 2024 Dr. Nikos Salamanos from the Cyprus University of Technology presented a research paper on detecting disinformation on X (formerly Twitter) at the 18th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM’24) in Buffalo, USA. This research is a collaboration between the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT), IMDEA Networks Madrid, and LSTECH

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