The informing during the coronavirus pandemic and the disease it causes – COVID-19 came to be a serious challenge globally. We are facing an unprecedented health crisis and therefore the accurate and timely information has become more important than ever, because they could mean saving tens of thousands of lives.

Additional issue regarding the informing is that, in times when most countries have declared state of emergency, the journalists and the media are facing even harder conditions for doing their work, since the news and information sources are becoming restricted and limited. As such, the media (especially the online media and the social media) feature many misinformation about the nature and origins of the virus, on fighting the disease, on health statistics, on measures and decisions implemented by the governments in specific countries, etc.

The Infodemics, as the World Health Organization (WHO) has named the flood of disinformation about the coronavirus, can be just as dangerous as the virus itself. Therefore, the partners in the STOP MISINFORMATION project, whose main goal is to improve the news literacy and the digital literacy as well as to improve the skills and the ability to recognize the misinformation in the media, decided to restructure their website and to include a separate section exactly on the information and misinformation regarding COVID-19.

This part of the electronic publication of STOP MISINFORMATION will include blogs from our partners, as well as translations of texts published in foreign media related to information and misinformation about COVID-19. There will be also infographics, quizzes for recognizing misinformation, as well as useful links. It is important to emphasize that these are official sources from governmental or international organizations and institutions, credible media, renowned universities, influential civic associations and non-governmental organizations, etc.

We are looking forward to cooperate with our readers in order to enrich our content with new and interesting articles, which are based on verified and accurate information.

BLOGS

Here you can find blogs from our partners as well as translations from foreign media related to information and misinformation about COVID-19, the literacy about the news and pandemics, tips on how to recognize fake news about the coronavirus, texts on educational practices during the coronavirus, useful tools for digital teaching and virtual communication, etc.

INFOGRAPHICS

НАУЧИ ПОВЕЌЕ ЗА ПИСМЕНОСТ ЗА ВЕСТИ И ЗА ДИГИТАЛНА ПИСМЕНОСТ

USEFUL LINKS

DOMESTIC SOURCES

The following links show the official information about the current situation and consequences of the coronavirus in Macedonia, the Government measures against COVID-19, transcripts and videos from the daily press events of the Government representatives, interactive maps, etc.

FOREIGN SOURCES

The following are links from foreign sources to official information about the coronavirus, guides from renowned journalistic and international media associations and university projects on misinformation and COVID-19, media literacy and news literacy during the coronavirus, texts in renowned foreign media, etc.