TsaMpa went to Italy for "Unfake Your News", August 2021
Apollonia, Veroniki, Michalis, Apostolis, Athanasios, and Stamatis were our six participants who traveled from Greece to Florence, Italy for an amazing youth exchange "Unfake Your News". We would like to thank them, as well as the Italian organization I C SE&Co for their cooperation. What is fake news? There is empirical evidence that false news spreads significantly "faster, deeper, and more broadly" than true ones. For example, an MIT study found that the top 1% of false news cascades diffused to 1,000 - 100,000 people, whereas the true ones rarely reached more than 1,000 people. An estimated 66% of links to popular websites shared on tweeter are generated by automated accounts The EU has also called for social media services like Facebook or Twitter to combat fake news, remove them from their site, and want them be regulated via law. The EU also adopted legislation in March 2019 to protect elections from data misuse following the Cambridge Analytica/ Fa