Bulgaria’s Youth Fact-Checking Network Grows

Bulgaria’s Youth Fact-Checking Network Grows

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Bulgaria has one of the lowest media literacy indices in the European Union. This trend can be reversed by developing a range of related skills - critical thinking, fact-checking skills, reading literacy and others, according to the education platform prepodavame.bg, CE Report quotes BTA

The international MediaWise project works on increasing media literacy among people of different ages by creating a network of youth who can verify popular claims in the media and social networks, and who want to fight against misinformation on the internet. The Bulgarian teen fact-checking network includes 15 young people from all over Bulgaria who are already posting their first fact-checking videos on social media.

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