A webinar with Tommaso Canetta, Coordinator of EDMO’s fact-checking activities, and Paula Gori, Secretary-General and Coordinator at EDMO. The webinar is part of the Foresight Dialogues webinar series, organized in the context of the CMCC Climate Change Communication Award “Rebecca Ballestra” initiative.
The European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO) serves as a hub for fact-checking by focusing on the analysis of disinformation, including recent climate disinformation narratives, to support European regulation policies. Paula Gori, Secretary-General and Coordinator at EDMO, and Tommaso Canetta, Coordinator of EDMO’s fact-checking activities, present the network’s initiatives in monitoring and addressing climate disinformation.
In the complex information landscape, the European Union defines disinformation as the intentional promotion of false, inaccurate, or misleading information, intentionally designed to cause public harm or for profit. The European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO) plays a pivotal role in monitoring disinformation in the EU, working as a fact-checking hub that gathers the collaborative efforts of a diverse network of 44 organizations across Europe.
During the Foresight Dialogue “Climate change disinformation: state of the art and how to tackle it”, Tommaso Canetta, coordinator of EDMO’s fact-checking activities, highlighted five prominent climate change disinformation narratives, identified through their ongoing monthly monitoring since the summer of 2022.
