The Network will support activities aiming at increasing fact-checking capacity and coverage across the EU. Such activities will include targeted support for fact-checkers, including collaboration activities, peer-to peer support as well as relevant technical infrastructure and tools to support their work.
Objective:The EU supports the capacity of a multidisciplinary community to understand, monitor and counter disinformation.
The objective of this topic is to maintain and further develop a platform supporting the operations of the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO), as well as deepening the language coverage and operational capacity of fact-checking in Europe.
In particular, the topic will support the operational cooperation between fact-checkers, researchers and media literacy practitioners across the EU through EDMO and support fact-checkers, with the aim to contribute to the fight against disinformation, to gain further insight on disinformation, monitoring of the disinformation space, debunking disinformation through the network of fact-checkers, and increasing the resilience of media professionals and citizens to disinformation.
Scope:The scope of this work strand is to strengthen the capacity of the European fact-checking community and making fact-checking available in all languages, building on and further expanding activities initially carried out by European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO) and other European fact-checking initiatives like the European Fact-Checking
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