Alter Ego Media: Competition ‘News Challenge: Truth or Lie?’ Commences

Alter Ego Media Group, successful practice with the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (EKPA), and with the support of the European Parliament Liaison Office successful Athens, is organizing the contention “News Challenge: Truth oregon Lie?”.

The contention is simply a continuation of the programme “Disinformation oregon Real News? Learn How to Tell the Difference”, which is posted connected the University’s escaped E-Learning programs platform. The second programme was created by the paper “To Vima”, successful practice with the Mega Channel and the quality ιστοσελίδα in.gr, with an purpose to amended users, namely, quality “consumers” susceptible of evaluating the validity of a quality point and identifying fake news.

Contestants are asked to hunt for a quality point that has been published/posted/broadcast arsenic true but is false.

Participating contestants indispensable then explicate successful a text – of up to 400 words – however they identified the specific fake quality item, what made them single it retired and why it is important for society that the disinformation was revealed successful the peculiar case.

The purpose of the contention is to promote participants’ captious thinking skills and to cultivate cognizant quality “consumers”, who tin place fake news, place the quality and accusation they tin trust, but are besides capable to understand why a quality point whitethorn represent disinformation.

The expansive winner of the Alter Ego Media contention will person the accidental to take betwixt three prizes:

• a assistance worth up to 3,000 euros for a postgraduate programme of their prime astatine the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (for the world years 2026-2027 oregon 2027-2028).
• a assistance worth up to 5,500 euros for attendance astatine the New Media Studies journalism schoolhouse of the Training HUB acquisition hub (for the world year 2026-2027),
• a training programme of the University’s E-Learning level (for the play 2026-2027 oregon 2027-2028)

Additionally, two runners-up will win an yearly integer subscription to the paper To Vima oregon for the humanities archive of the newspapers To Vima and Ta Nea.

For each applicable information, visit the page: https://www.tovima.gr/newschallenge/

Source: tovima.com