Report of HLEG on Fake News and Online Disinformation

• Authors: Bôtošová Ľubica

Abstracts

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This report refers about the policy initiatives to counter fake news and disinformation spread online and the techniques of the European Commission to prevent this issue. The HLEG, a high-level group of experts created by the European Commission in 2018, prepared a report with best practicies and suitable responses to disinformation. The main responses were divided into five pillars as transparency, media and information literacy, empowering users and journalists, safeguard of the diversity of the European news media ecosystem and continued research.

Keywords

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Fake news; Disinformation; HLEG; European commission; Report; Media literacy

• Publisher: Fakulta masmediálnej komunikácie Univerzita sv. Cyrila a Metoda
• Journal: Media Literacy and Academic Research
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 1
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 74-77
• Physical description: Media education, Media literacy
• Document type: News

Contributors

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Bôtošová Ľubica

• University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava Faculty of Mass Media