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Kirsty Park, EDMO Ireland’s Policy Lead, recently made an presentation at the DSA and Platform Regulation conference, held at the University of Amsterdam. Collaborating with Rabhya Mehrotra, their presentation delved into the diverse viewpoints regarding data access under Article 40 of the Digital Services Act (DSA). The conference was co-organized by the DSA Observatory, the … Read More “EDMO Ireland presents at DSA and Platform Regulation Conference” »
EDMO Ireland contributed to FuJo’s submission to the public consultation on An Coimisiún Toghcháin’s first draft research programme. The submission contained the following on electoral interference: When it comes to protecting Ireland’s democracy and electoral events, combating online electoral interference is of the utmost importance. We note that electoral interference may be interpreted in different … Read More “Submission to the public consultation on An Coimisiún Toghcháin’s first draft research programme” »
Since early October, EDMO Ireland and Media Literacy Ireland have joined forces to deliver a series of webinars and training sessions to promote media literacy concepts and practices across the country, especially in relation to best practices to analyse and evaluate the information we come across daily. As part of this initiative, EDMO Ireland developed … Read More “BE MEDIA SMART COMMUNITY TRAINING PROGRAMME: A SUMMARY” »
The Workshop in Box, a media literacy resource developed by EDMO Ireland for the national Be Media Smart campaign, has recently got an Irish version that is available on the Media Literacy Ireland website. The translation was organized by An Chomhairle um Oideachas Gaeltachta agus Gaelscolaíochta (COGG), a government body linked to the Department of … Read More “Expanding the reach of EDMO Ireland’s Workshop in a Box” »
The New Be Media Smart national campaign officially started on the 24th of October and it encourages people across Ireland to ‘Stop, Think, Check’ when they encounter information. Coordinated by Media Literacy Ireland and supported by a wide range of members, the campaign aims to raise awareness of the disinformation problem among the population and provide … Read More “EDMO Ireland partners with Media Literacy Ireland to provide training, webinars and promote media literacy during the Be Media Smart Campaign.” »
EDMO Ireland made the following submission to the Submission to the National Counter Disinformation Strategy’s Public Consultation: Counter Disinformation and protect freedom of speech using a rights based approach This is a rights-based strategy. Measures to counter disinformation must uphold human rights, including the freedom of expression. In addition, all members of society should be … Read More “Submission to the National Counter Disinformation Strategy’s Public Consultation” »
EDMO Ireland Policy Lead, Kirsty Park, alongside Stephan Mündges from the GADMO hub presented results from the first CoP Monitor report to the European Regulators Group for Audiovisual Media Services (ERGA) Subgroup on Countering disinformation and strengthening democracy in the digital environment. The CoP Monitor report is based on an international collaboration of 9 academics … Read More “EDMO Ireland presents CoP analysis to ERGA subgroup” »
A public consultation has opened for the National Counter Disinformation Strategy. EDMO Ireland is an invited member of the working group that is developing the strategy. Following five months of meetings and presentations, including presentations by EDMO’s Eileen Culloty and Kirsty Park, the working group came up with a scoping paper. It identifies a range … Read More “Consultation opens on the National Counter Disinformation Strategy” »
The biggest platforms claim they take the fight against disinformation seriously, however, the evidence they provide for this claim is lacking. That’s according to the CoP Monitor, a new report led by EDMO Ireland Policy Lead Dr Kirsty Park. The project was coordinated by the Ireland and GADMO hubs and features contributions from the ADMO and … Read More “Major Platforms Disinformation Fight Under Scrutiny in new CoP Monitor Report” »
