Report of HLEG on Fake News and Online Disinformation

Journal Title: Media Literacy and Academic Research - Year 2018, Vol 1, Issue 2

Abstract

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.

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Ľubica Bôtošová

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Ľubica Bôtošová (2018). Report of HLEG on Fake News and Online Disinformation. Media Literacy and Academic Research, 1(2), 74-77. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-433035