The fake news

Participants are divided into groups to prepare the public event called The fake news. 

Time: 2-3h Topics: media manipulation, media literacy, hoax 

Group size: 20-30 pax 

Main idea: participants create a hoax and approach citizens to ask about their opinion to this hoax. After citizens believe it and discuss, the truth is revealed and they highlight the importance of factchecking. Participants divided into groups according to digital competence - doing video and writing the script (video group, 1st group), 2nd group management group facilitating the happening (preparing the structure) and 3rd group - journalist group, who will work on the fake news and its structure. Each group also researches on the internet information about topic and recent event closest to the fake event. The fake itself is agreed and developed by participants themselves. The participants approach citizens asking them on opinion on the event happened the day before (which is made up, but strangers are not aware of that fact). After short conversation and asking on the opinion of the stranger, they reveal that the event is not real. They lead the contesting person to the kiosk, where they highlight the importance of fact checking. They explain the aftermath of hoaxes and manipulated informations and other processes learned in the previous days. They discuss the topic on how our opinions are shaped by false information and how it affects us and they explain conrete tools and mechanism how to be resistent to false information, how to demask it.