Concrete Action to Combat Disinformation and Hate Speech: Ministry of Information, UNESCO and OIF Sign Partnership Agreement
A Tripartite Partnership Agreement to combat disinformation was signed this week by (three at center) UNESCO’s Costanza Farina; H.E. Ziad Al Makary, Minister of Information in Lebanon; and Lévon Amirjanyan, Représentant de l’OIF pour le Moyen-Orient. UNESCO Photo
UNESCO
In a strategic step towards combating disinformation and hate speech in Lebanon, UNESCO signed a Tripartite Partnership Agreement this week under the leadership of Ministry of Information with the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF).
The signing ceremony was attended by H.E. Ziad Al Makary, Minister of Information in Lebanon, Costanza Farina, Director of UNESCO Multisectoral Regional Office in Beirut, and Lévon Amirjanyan, Représentant de l’OIF pour le Moyen-Orient. This partnership leverages the expertise of all parties to increase critical thinking among the public, drawing on best practices to promote media and information literacy in the context of crisis.
A large-scale media campaign across TV channels and social media platforms will be launched to raise public awareness on critical thinking and depicting fake news and disinformation. Capacity development actions will be taken to increase the competencies of a core team of journalists/reporters from the National News Agency on fact-checking and video reporting. The necessary equipment will also be provided.
This initiative contributes to the UNESCO Action Plan for the Emergency Response for Lebanon for the strategic objective related to media, and within the framework of OIF’s program on the prevention and fight against disinformation.
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