Through eight chapters of the collection, the members of the Pro-fact consortium approached the problem of COVID-19 disinformation narratives through a series of perspectives and methods, with the aim of determining the main dissemination actors, the nature of disinformation narratives, their content and the behavioral characteristics of their proponents.
Strengthening resistance to disinformation is the joint responsibility of all stakeholders who can contribute to the development of media, scientific and civic literacy, is the conclusion of Gong's conference "Democracy must be healthy".
Gong and the Pro-fact consorcium invite you to the "Democracy Must Be Healthy" conference.
After numerous analyzes on the topic of disinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic, Gong brings the comics "What do they say?" and "Blue people are not real", realized through the work of Ena Jurov, Lucija Bužančić, Peđa Ličina and Štef Bartolić.
Gong's handbook addresses some of the sources of journalism's vulnerability to disinformation that the COVID-19 pandemic has alerted us to.
By conducting an experiment where a video in which untruths are stated and then exposed with arguments, the research showed that encouraging critical thinking can influence the attitudes of people who believe in COVID-19 conspiracy theories, but not when said belief is extreme.
