EFE will bring to life the devastating effect of disinformation on the lives of ten victims of false claims and conspiracy theories from different countries and continents in a multimedia project by EFE Verifies supported by the International Fact Checking Network (IFCN), Google and YouTube.
Fake News, Real Victims will tell the personal stories of citizens in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia whose lives have been severely damaged by the spread of falsehoods in a series of articles, videos and a podcast, in a cross-cutting effort involving the Agency's Information and Strategy directorates.
The project also includes the organisation of six media literacy workshops for vulnerable
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communities in four languages (Spanish, English, French and Portuguese), which will be delivered by the non-profit association Learn To Check.
First-person testimonies
The main objective of this initiative is to humanise the problem of disinformation and to show how viral falsehoods cause tragedies and fuel hate speech.
Examples of this are the attacks against the Rohinyá in Burma or the spread of hoaxes about the catastrophic consequences of the dana in Valencia, as well as the unfounded conspiracy theories that led to the assault on the Capitol in the United States in January 2021, in an attack that killed five people.
LINK: https://agenciaefe.es/proyecto-multimedia-de-efe-verifica/