unit 6

Wrap Up

In the past five units you have explored how to:

  • distinguish between dis-, mis- and malinformation, understanding how the different types are being used surrounding the Covid-19 crisis;
  • recognise the problematic nature that amplification of dis-, mis- and malinformation can have, and how quickly false information can be spread, especially on social media;
  • verify images and videos, practising using the tools provided;
  • take steps to help adjust your work practices, collaborate with other journalistic networks and protect your own mental health during a difficult time period, as well as use social listening tools in order to improve your news gathering and monitoring techniques;
  • debunk false stories using credibility, logic and emotion.

This final unit will be created and built up by you. We hope that you will take what you have learnt from the past units and be able to uncover more debunked stories surrounding COVID-19. Please upload those stories to our debunkers database here, so that we can build a peer network and a community that is able to work together to tackle the ongoing dis-, mis-, and malinformation in this infodemic.