Workshop on Disinformation in Science News
ISGlobal - Barcelona Institute of Global Health by Raül Toran and Clara Mediñà (ISGlobal)
Horizon Europeu GOLIAT project
Supported by Verificat
Coordination: Dr. Mònica Guxens (ISGlobal, CIBERESP)
September – December 2022
#projectGOLIAT ON 5G & HEALTH
WORKSHOPON DISINFORMATION
RESULTS
Horizon Europe #projectGOLIAT coordinated by ISGlobal
Workshop on how to detect scientific disinformation
Workshop on how to detect scientific misinformation
OBJECTIVE: To use a reliable methodology to detect disinformation in science in an easy way and to develop a final product to avoid disinformation.
METHODOLOGY: We will distribute three or four examples of false news (or not) in science and we will work on different aspects in the dissemination of the news.
How de we define fake news or disinformation?
How would you define a fake new?
How would you define disinformation?
How de we define fake news or disinformation?
Fake news consists of pseudo-journalistic content disseminated through websites, written press, radio, television and social media with the purpose of disinformation. They are designed and broadcast with the deliberate intention of deceiving, misleading, manipulating personal decisions, discrediting or exalting an institution, entity or person, or obtaining financial or political gain. By presenting false facts as if they were real, they are considered a threat to the credibility of serious media, evidence and professional journalists, as well as a challenge to the receiving public.
How we define fake news or disinformation?
Disinformation is a false or misleading information that is intentionally disseminated to mislead and attempt to manipulate the beliefs, emotions and opinions of the general public. It is a process closely related to propaganda and fake news.
In short, it is the act and result of deliberate misinformation.
How we define fake news or disinformation?
Then, we will talk about disinfomation, which includes the term fake news!
What is the interest in disinformation?
Why do you think it is in the interest of fake news and/or disinformation?
Eating Carrots Improves Vision
Ideologies
Motivations
(political, economic creating confusion)
Divert and hide important issues
During World War II, the British Royal Air Force invented the myth tying carrots to clear vision as a way to explain the sudden increase in Nazi bombers being shot down.
Disinformation in science?
Science is based on proven and demonstrable facts: evidences. There is also fake news in science - do you know of any examples?
Workshop on how to detect scientific disinformation
Through which platforms or media do you think more fake science news are communicated?
Workshop on how to detect scientific disinformation
Through which platforms or media do you think more fake science news are communicated?
- Social media
- Internet
- TV
- Radio
- Press
Workshop on how to detect scientific disinformation
What user-friendly tools do you know to detect fake science news?
Workshop on how to detect scientific disinformation
What user-friendly tools do you know to detect fake science news?
- Verificat
- Maldita Ciencia
- Salud sin bulos
- Red antibulos
- Pubmed
- Ailende
Workshop on how to detect scientific disinformation
On which topics do you think there are more fake science news?
Workshop on how to detect scientific disinformation
On which topics do you think there are more fake science news?
- Health
- Vaccines
- Covid-19
- Radiation/5G
- Cancer
- Climate Change
- Flat Earth
- Microbiology
- Genetics
- Environment
What is fake news? A guide to combating disinformation in the post-truth era (Spanish)
https://www.ifj.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Fake_News_-_FIP_
AmLat.pdf
Book: #FakeYou. Fake news i desinformació. A project directed by Simona Levi. Editorial Rayo Verde. 2019. Verificat - https://www.verificat.cat/
