Implementation period:  August 2023 – March 2024

Financing organization: Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR)

Project goal: To encourage greater involvement of different categories of Moldovan citizens in the fight against disinformation by stimulating critical thinking, strengthening information verification skills, and stimulating public reporting of cases of disinformation and information manipulation.

1. Promote critical thinking and enhance the ability of information consumers to distinguish qualitative information from speculation and disinformation, through face-to-face meetings and discussions with consumers and special categories of professionals, especially social workers;

2. Stimulate the practice of public reporting of false and distorted information through competitions and incentives for the most active fighters of falsehoods;

3. Strengthen the fact-checking skills of young journalists, students, activists through training and networking activities to increase their involvement and engagement in anti-disinformation activities.

1. Organize and hold 10 meetings with media consumers from rural regions to discuss about disinformation and critical thinking, especially in times of war;

2. Organize and hold 16 meetings with social workers from different districts/regions to strengthen their knowledge and capacity to counter disinformation;

3. Publish five editions of the thematic education page "Think critically!" and publish it in 12 newspapers with national and regional/local distribution;

4. Produce and publish on www.Stopfals.md portal of journalistic materials to debunk viral falsehoods in the public space and on communication platforms and their promotion on social networks;

5. Organize and run one edition of the false and misleading information reporting contest on Semnale.stopfals.md platform, and reward the winners;

6. Training and networking for young journalists, students and activists on fact-checking, to stimulate their involvement in the fight against disinformation and to expand API's network of fact-checkers.