Concept: What is disinformation and what are its consequences for societies? How Media and Information Literacy deals with this phenomenon.

Issues raised according to the latest version of UNESCO’s Media and Information Literacy curriculum:
- Media and Information Literacy
competencies on addressing
information disorder
- MIL programs and projects
addressing disinformation

Learning outcomes:
- Analyze the impact of misinformation on public trust of news media organizations
- Illustrate how to carry out fact-checking and related techniques and tools to combat misinformation
- Prepare an action program/project to address misinformation
- Distinguish the different types of misinformation, disinformation and mal-information, including conspiracy theories/myths, in terms of characteristics, motivations, etc.
- Illustrate cases of common categories of misinformation found on different media platforms

on this subject: Media and Information Literacy