Roberta METSOLA, EP President does a Facebook Live on the European Parliament’s page

EP roundtable for news agencies - New ideas and opportunities for cooperation

Social networks, Computer, Communication, Internet

Claude MORAES, Kinga GONCZ, Salvatore IACOLINO, Simon BUSUTTIL

Brief Summary on the New Hungarian Media Act, Reunion in WIC 100 with Kinga Göncz MEP

Workshop  for Journalists-Accountability and public service-EU institutions and the media

Audiovisual seminar

Press room at the EP in Brussels.

Context is everything, and disinformation spreaders know it. Sometimes they try to lure us into their lies by presenting real facts, photos or parts of speeches in a misleading context. 
 
We show you how this works and how you can avoid falling into this trap.

How disinformation works | Episode 5: Presenting things out of context  (short - 9:16)

Finding information that seems to confirm what we already believe in might be comforting. However, it could also be our blind spot. 
  
Disinformation spreaders might use content aligned with the beliefs and values we already hold to manipulate us. 
  
This video will help you to identify this widely-used manipulation technique and protect yourself against it.

How disinformation works | Episode 4: Confirming existing beliefs  (short - 9:16)

How disinformation works | Episode 4: Confirming existing beliefs

What’s better than a chat about democracy? A chat about democracy with a free coffee!
Meet Cille, a together.eu volunteer who set up a coffee truck in Copenhagen to encourage democratic participation in the EU. 
Together with her team, she organises EU-related events throughout the year to get people talking about what the EU can do for them and how EU institutions play a role in everyone’s life. 
Together.eu is a community of people who care about the EU and its future. By supporting the together.eu community, the European Parliament is encouraging people from across the EU to get involved in the democratic process.

Boosting democratic participation with Cille, a together.eu volunteer 9:16

The European Parliament is encouraging people from across the EU to get involved in the democratic process.

Together.eu is a community powered by the European Parliament where you can meet - online and offline - people who care about democracy and make your voice heard on European issues.

Like Mireya in Madrid and Cille in Denmark, together.eu volunteers from across the EU meet, debate, exchange ideas and organise events to highlight what EU institutions do for citizens and why democratic participation is vital.

Meet your community and join them on together.eu.

Get involved in strengthening EU democracy! Meet Mireya and Cille

Sometimes what people behind disinformation want is to sow confusion and doubt.

They flood social media with multiple and conflicting versions of the same event, not in order to convince us of something but to promote general distrust and apathy.

Learn how to spot and counter this threat by watching this video with the European Parliament’s experts.

You can read more about the European Parliament and European Elections here: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/portal/en

How disinformation works | Episode 3: flooding the information space (short - 9:16)

How disinformation works | Episode 3: flooding the information space

Have you ever felt like shying away from a discussion because the tone was too aggressive and your opinion seemed to get lost between extreme statements?

This is what usually happens when the most extreme points of view are artificially boosted.

By polarising the debate, disinformation spreaders want to make us believe that the differences between us are much greater than they really are and make it difficult to make compromises and reach solutions.

Watch this video to see how this is done and how you can avoid falling into this trap.

You can read more about the European Parliament and European Elections here: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/portal/en

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