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Project START2THINK<\/strong> is dedicated to strengthening media literacy and building European citizens\u2019 resilience to disinformation. Its aim is to alert Internet users to possible disinformation activities, narratives and techniques, as well as to \u2018vaccinate\u2019 them against future dangers, enhancing their critical thinking skills, as well as people-to-people and institutional cross-border cooperation in the field of countering disinformation and building societies\u2019 resilience, so important during the current very difficult times with the coronavirus pandemic, social distancing and lockdown in many countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On the project website, readers can find definitions, useful fact-checking tools, interviews with critical thinkers, that means journalists, analysts, researches, NGOs workers etc. engaged in fighting disinformation. A special tool kit elaborated jointly with experts with a simple set of concrete and comprehensive rules addressed to internet users helps to raise awareness about the danger of receiving and propagating disinformation, promote the use of fact-checking services and strengthen critical thinking skills. Start2think.info<\/a> also includes an online library with analysis, reports, handbooks, summaries of expert debates, guides, opinions and articles describing disinformation activities\/narratives\/techniques commonly used by malicious actors to create, distribute and amplify disinformation, as well as exploring the use of methods to study false viral news. An important part of the project are the meetings of an established network<\/strong> of experts, researchers, analysts etc., who exchange their practices, hints and recommendations on how to fact-check and distinguish between facts and fakes, during regular online brainstorming sessions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\ud83d\udc49 Not just Start2Think, but also Start2 check\u2757
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The project Start2think is co-financed by the EU\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddfa pic.twitter.com\/1CR0Kls69y<\/a><\/p>— START2THINK (@ThinkStart2) October 16, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote>