First aid in case of doubt

First aid in case of doubt This project aims to support editors, journalists and organizations to deal more efficiently with disinformation and to respond more quickly in a digital environment in which it is becoming easy to spread disinformation on a daily basis. We also want to teach news users how to deal with disinformation in a more resilient way. The project is a collaboration between news organizations (VRT, Roularta), the universities of Leuven, Brussels and Antwerp, and Textgain. The 'First Aid in case of doubt' project focuses on digital resilience against disinformation, as does developing new formats to reach them with fact checks, on the right platform and in the right form. In addition, the project develops tools to detect doubts, to speed up fact-checking processes and to be able to create these new formats. The project aims to map out who the Flemish people are who doubt the information they see, for example on their social media, and who are thrown off balance as a result. We investigate who those people are, but also what they need to know whether messages they see are real and correct or not. We want to investigate on which platforms, for example, there is the greatest need for fact checks and in what form.

Keywords:NEWS BROADCASTS, POLITICAL NEWS, PUBLIC OPINION, INFORMATION BEHAVIOUR

Disciplines:Citizenship education, Political communication, Journalism studies

Project type:Collaboration project