Fighting Disinformation: Tools and Strategies for Fact-Checking

The Mediterranean region faces particular climate change challenges, including rising sea levels, increased heat waves and biodiversity loss, all of which affect ecosystems, human health and economic stability. However, these issues are often mired in misinformation and disinformation that distort scientific data, sow public doubt, and hinder effective policymaking and community action. To build climate resilience in the Mediterranean, it is essential to combat this misinformation with reliable fact-checking tools, sound communication strategies, and clear educational resources.

Because we believe in the importance of independent and trustworthy media in building a better future together, and to celebrate Mediterranean Day this year, we invite you to watch this dynamic panel discussion at our Tabadul event. Led by various fact-checking experts, we debunk myths and equip you with the tools to identify and combat climate-related disinformation, with a special focus on the Mediterranean region.

Fact-checking tools and strategies to combat disinformation

During this session, participants gain insights into common myths about climate change and effective techniques for fact-checking and responsible climate communication. The panel of experts shares best practices with concrete cases and examples, and questions from the audience.

Meet the speakers:

• Samuel Allan, journalist at Maldita.es, a non-profit foundation based in Spain that builds public trust by fighting disinformation and promoting transparency through journalism, education, technology, research and policy action.  

• Magdalini Gkogkou, fact-checking journalist at the AFP and member of MedDMO, The Mediterranean Digital Media Observatory, a regional hub of the European Digital Media Observatory covering Greece, Cyprus, and Malta.