Online dossier about digital desinformation published

Just in time for the European Elections, the German Federal Agency for Civic Education published a new dossier about digital desinformation.

Lena Frischlich contributed an article (in German) about the role of critical media literacy in this context.

In the article, she argues that four components are needed for democratic resilience in times of online desinformation: Awareness for the problem of polluted information, reflection of own media usage behaviours, and  empowerment of media users critically testing information they encounter in online-environments.

Beyond these more traditional dimensions of critical media literacy, she argues,  there is an urgent need for restoring and protecting trust in communication from journalists, scientists, and politicians.

The full article (in German) can be found here.