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Educating Moldovan Consumers of Information to Reduce the Effect of the False Information and Manipulation through Media

Project Description
The major objective of this project is to diminish the impact of manipulation and propaganda by the media through educating media consumers to identify manipulation and false or biased information. These activities will continue and will extend the campaign against false and biased information, ”StopFals!”, conducted by the Association of Independent Press (API) and its partners in Moldova.
Specific Objective
- To educate media consumers in the rural areas to distinguish objective information from information manipulation by establishing and developing a network of 35 collaborators of the campaign against false and biased information, "STOP FALS!", across Moldova.
- To explain to rural media consumers the risk of manipulation by the media and the way to identify manipulating information by conducting of an information and education campaign.
- To reduce the number of manipulated people through media by producing print and video educational materials on preventing manipulation and techniques for identifying false information.
Expected Results
- At least 4000 people in rural areas will be aware of the risk of manipulation by media.
- Up to 100 000 media consumers in rural areas in the Republic of Moldova are able to consciously differentiate false information.
- At least 2/3 of media consumers aware of the manipulation risk are women.
- 50% of StopFals “agents” are women.
- 140 public meetings on risk of manipulation are to be organised.
- 4000 participants in local meetings.
- 360 materials published/broadcast by local and national media on manipulation.
- 35 persons able to explain the risk of manipulation are trained, 30% of them are women.
- A film/video broadcast on TV channels, posted on the web pages, shown at public meetings.
- 8 analyses/newsletters disseminated among at least 200 beneficiaries in the country.
- A national conference held at the end of project.
Beneficiaries
Conducting a broad information campaign for the media consumers in the rural areas from all districts of the country
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API Presents Results of European Project Supporting STOP FALS! Campaign
PROJECT DETAILS
Moldova
Priority Area:
Partnership that empowers
Subsector:
Communication & support to media
Topic:
Media, Communication
Project Status:
Completed
Start Date:
07.12.2017
End Date:
06.12.2019
EU Project Number:
390-220