Know Fake

The spread of tall tales, disinformation and manipulated images has increased extremely in recent years. The Corona pandemic in particular, with its conspiracy narratives and health-damaging false reports, has highlighted the importance of digital literacy.

Therefore, it is important to "combat disinformation," to teach methods for debunking manipulative messages, and to address and sensitize as broad an audience as possible, especially from socioculturally disadvantaged backgrounds. A fundamental concern is also to recognize mechanisms of manipulation and to defend democracy on the Internet.

A functioning democracy is based on education, the ability to reflect, critical thinking and the ability to judge - i.e. the maturity - of the citizens, which is why the EU has been taking united action against (systematic) disinformation since 2018 with a specially designed action plan.

KNOW FAKE wants to make an important contribution to this, because media literacy of citizens is an increasingly important component of maturity. Media literacy includes: the analytical examination of forms of media communication, the reflection of different contents, the teaching of practical strategies in order to see through mechanisms of manipulation, to understand them better and to be able to discuss them.

KNOW FAKE starts with the European Action Plan for Democracy and the fight against disinformation and brings media competencies directly into families with its results in the form of this educational project.

Together with experts from all over Europe, we are developing an analog card game (multilingual) as well as a supporting web-based app to better recognize and critically classify disinformation and fake news.

One of the goals is to establish family exchanges as a place of learning for digital literacy; furthermore, the playful approach as well as the low-threshold accessibility offers the ideal complement to school and extracurricular education in youth institutions, through which the background, modes of operation and principles of fake news can be learned and analyzed.

The dissemination will take place via multiplier events for parents, educators and political representatives; in addition, political decision-makers will receive an impulse paper.

For more information, please visit: https://knowfake.eu/ as well as: http://www.kinderphilosophie.at/