Strengthening the capacity of journalists and election monitors in Serbia to confront disinformation and propaganda Donor: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic
Fake News Exposed (Phase 2): Strengthening the capacity of journalists and election monitors in Serbia to confront disinformation and propaganda
Overall Objective:
The overall objective of the project is to build local capacity in Serbia to combat propaganda and disinformation.
Partners:
CRTA
Objectives
- To provide a core group of journalists and election monitors with tools to debunk disinformation and propaganda, while expanding efforts to reach senior citizens among a broader group of election monitors.
- To support a digital verification team of journalists to produce high-quality content for a wide audience on an ongoing basis.
- To continue to provide resources for journalism educators, students, and the wider public in the area of digital investigation, interpretation of statistics and budgetary data, and storytelling.
Activities
- Training of journalists (two workshops);
- Training of journalists (online learning);
- Training of election monitors (online learning);
- Training of election monitors (2 workshops);
- Training of election day monitors (including seniors);
- Strengthening of CRTA info verification team, with in-house capacity–building provided to team;
- Team produces weekly content for Istinomer;
- Team produces monthly content for international audiences; and
- Further development of specialized pages on digital propaganda on istinomer.rs.
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