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Section outline

  • The third section looks at the best-known and most widely used methods of curbing the spread of disinformation. First, it examines the discursive, argumentative and narrative mechanisms that make disinformation attractive to audiences, and second, it explores the advantages and possible disadvantages of critical thinking, media literacy, debunking, fact-checking and prebunking as the most commonly used and recommended means of combating disinformation.


    • S3.1. Transnational and regulatory responses to disinformation / FIMI and resilience building







    • S3.2. Critical thinking, media and digital literacies







    • S3.3. Fact-checking, argument-checking, debunking and pre-bunking







    • S3.4. Evaluation Module 3