{"id":24118,"date":"2020-02-11T11:46:37","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T11:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agefriendlyworld.local.org\/?p=24118"},"modified":"2020-02-11T12:14:32","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T12:14:32","slug":"combating-hate-speech-and-misinformation-with-digital-literacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/extranet.who.int\/agefriendlyworld\/combating-hate-speech-and-misinformation-with-digital-literacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Combating hate speech and misinformation with digital literacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p><strong>AGE and its Greek member, 50+Hellas,\u00a0are involved in DIGITOL, a new European project for the digital inclusion of older adults that kicks off this January 2020. By building intergenerational s<\/strong><strong>ynergies, the project aims to sustain the digital participation and active citizenship of older adults and contain the spread of fake news and hate speech.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Within a digitalized modern society that relies inceasingly on digital means for communication and information, and with older adults growingly using the Internet, online information literacy become imperative. Yet, the prevalence of digital illiteracy among EU older cohorts remain strikingly lower than in any other age groups. At the same time, a recent article from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/30662946\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Guess and Tucker (2019)<\/a> showcased that adults aged 65+ are seven times more likely to share fake-news articles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The DIGITOL project will address the emerging need for a better digital literacy among older adults in filtering-out fake news that promote unfounded hateful speech, discriminatory attitudes, radical or divisive nationalism, racism and homophobia. It will use\u00a0an evidence-based, successfully used life-long learning method, that capitalises the benefits of intergenerational learning and intergenerational solidarity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.age-platform.eu\/project\/digitol\">Learn more about the DIGITOL project<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AGE and its Greek member, 50+Hellas,\u00a0are involved in DIGITOL, a new European project for the digital inclusion of older adults that kicks off this January 2020. By building intergenerational synergies, the project aims to sustain the digital participation and active citizenship of older adults and contain the spread of fake news and hate speech.<\/p>\n<p>Within a digitalized modern society that relies inceasingly on digital means for communication and information, and with older adults growingly using the Internet, online information literacy become imperative. Yet, the prevalence of digital illiteracy among EU older cohorts remain strikingly lower than in any other age groups. At the same time, a recent article from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/30662946\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Guess and Tucker (2019)<\/a> showcased that adults aged 65+ are seven times more likely to share fake-news articles.<\/p>\n<p>The DIGITOL project will address the emerging need for a better digital literacy among older adults in filtering-out fake news that promote unfounded hateful speech, discriminatory attitudes, radical or divisive nationalism, racism and homophobia. It will use\u00a0an evidence-based, successfully used life-long learning method, that capitalises the benefits of intergenerational learning and intergenerational solidarity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.age-platform.eu\/project\/digitol\">Learn more about the DIGITOL project<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":352,"featured_media":24119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0},"categories":[550],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/extranet.who.int\/agefriendlyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/extranet.who.int\/agefriendlyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/extranet.who.int\/agefriendlyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extranet.who.int\/agefriendlyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extranet.who.int\/agefriendlyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24118"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/extranet.who.int\/agefriendlyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24128,"href":"https:\/\/extranet.who.int\/agefriendlyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24118\/revisions\/24128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extranet.who.int\/agefriendlyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/extranet.who.int\/agefriendlyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extranet.who.int\/agefriendlyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extranet.who.int\/agefriendlyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}