Disinformation - Media support (June '21)
Report of the GFMD IMPACT donor-practitioner-academic learning and information sharing meeting on 17 June 2021.
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Report of the GFMD IMPACT donor-practitioner-academic learning and information sharing meeting on 17 June 2021.
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The meeting was co-convened by
The meeting report summarises the presentations and discussions that took place in the breakout groups and main session.
Emphasizing the “do no harm” principle
Support to journalism must address:
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Quotes, insights and suggestions on how to improve the overall effectiveness of the media development responses to disinformation.
MediaDev practitioners
Donors & funders
Academics & researchers
Media regulators
22
16
15
1
Male
Female
29
25
"Global North"
"Global South"
38
16
* not including members of the GFMD secretariat
If you are interested in reading feedback those who attended the meeting see:
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On 17th June 2021 's hosted a meeting of 54 media development donors, practitioners and academics to discuss effective responses to disinformation.
Disinformation was chosen after it was selected as a priority in a survey of those engaged with GFMD IMPACT's activities, as well as in previous with media development actors.
The full agenda for the meeting is :
Ideas put forward on how to make included:
The need for
on disinformation to focus resources on support for journalism
How to effectively make the case for
Language barriers and sustainability were identified as challenges for programmes.
Fact-checking services was among many suggestions on how to more effectively engage vulnerable/polarised communities.
Research and researchers on disinformation need to be .
Creative solutions were proposed for improving .
More research is needed on disinformation.
The fact that newsrooms and journalists themselves can be o.
within journalism
A working paper on identified for evaluators and argues for around countering disinformation; carrying out a ; creating a for program design.
Due to the cross-cutting nature of the discussions, the report presents that findings and insights from the meeting using the typology of responses to disinformation identified in as a guide.
One of the report's authors - - prepared a presentation for the meeting about the typology of responses to disinformation.
This presentation has also been used to summarise and define responses throughout the meeting report. See text labelled (Source: ).
This section focuses on educational responses (Source: )
The final section of the meeting report covers discussion and insights emanating the presentation of a draft working paper on the produced for the meeting by Susan Abbott and Katerina Tsetsura:
A of resources related to how media development and wider policy initiatives can address disinformation is available .
