This text was published by Meddmo, one of fifteen EDMO Hubs.
Media experts from around the Mediterranean held a public event at the University of Malta on Thursday (30th October) on the theme of fighting disinformation and empowering society. This interactive event marked the start of the second round of the Mediterranean Digital Media Observatory (MedDMO), an EU-funded project bringing together journalists, media literacy experts and researchers in Malta, Greece and Cyprus, as well as from the international news agency, Agence France-Presse. The University of Malta’s Department of Media and Communications, one of MedDMO’s local partners, is hosting the consortium’s two-day plenary meeting between Thursday and Friday. On Thursday, journalists, students, researchers, academics, activists, NGOs and others gathered to meet MedDMO’s international team at the University of Malta’s Faculty of Media and Knowledge Sciences. The team presented snapshots of its work and processes – including fact-checking and disinformation investigation, media literacy training, and the monitoring of media pluralism in each country. The presentations were followed by a lively interactive panel discussion on disinformation in Malta and beyond, with the participation of representatives from Times of Malta (MedDMO’s other local partner), the Malta Communications Authority and AFP, as well as interventions from the floor, which included comments by a representative of…