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Italian project teaches students to identify disinformation and fake news

Mar 25, 2025 131

BY: We the Italians Editorial Staff

Young Europeans believe they frequently encounter fake news, but they are also confident in their ability to recognize disinformation: this is the picture that emerges from the European Parliament's Youth Survey 2024, which examined the views of citizens aged 16 to 30 across the European Union.
 
In Italy, the scientific outreach event of the European Researchers' Night, MEETmeTonight, funded by the European Union, has introduced an important new initiative this year: MEETme@School. This project targets two thousand students from primary to high schools in the Lombardy region. The program involves a professor visiting high school classes for a two-hour session aimed at teaching students how to identify fake news.

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TAG : Education Lombardia

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