According to the European External Action Service (EEAS), disinformation is disseminated by foreign state and non-state actors with the aim of exploiting the uncertainty and fears in societies to advance their own agenda(EEAS 2020: Special Report). What is disinformation? How is disinformation affecting societies in Central Europe? What types of Fake News are we dealing with and what role do we, the users, play? Is Fake News even an accurate term? How can Media Literacy help to protect our democracies?

Join our discussion on the upcoming Tuesday as part of the event “Disinformation from the Central European Perspective” at 6.30 p.m. CET with Mr. Dietmar Pichler.

Mr. Dietmar Pichler is the programmatic Director and Lecturer of the "Center for Digital Media Literacy" and the board member for International Relations at Vienna goes Europe (a non-partisan association).

He believes that disinformation campaigns pose a challenge for European societies.

„Not only do today’s users consume information - they also produce and spread it“.