Associate professors of the Department of Journalism and Philology of the Faculty of  FPSC SSU Alla Fedoryna and Volodymyr Sadivnychy conducted a training on media literacy, organized by the Phylyp Orlyk Institute for Democracy. They talked about misinformation and forms of counteracting it.

The focus is on the kremlin’s “lessons” on misinformation: why they taught us today; how manipulations affect Ukrainian and Russian audiences; how russian propaganda messages are changing during the preparations for the war; by what criteria to evaluate misinformation; what are the signs of propaganda, fakes and dipfeys, etc. Information throw-ins and significant elements of the psychological attack on Ukraine unleashed by information media were analyzed on the basis of specific examples. In particular, “putin’s meeting” with flight attendants, Azov’s preparation of a series of terrorist attacks against diplomats from the United States and other countries in Lviv; SMS-mailing for Ukrainians with a message about charging money; creation in Ukraine of “bioagents capable of selectively affecting different ethnic groups” and others.
Participants of the training are journalists, teachers of higher educational institutions, students, teachers of schools from different settlements of Ukraine. In their responses, they, in particular, remarked: “It is important for me to communicate on these topics. My son, your former student, is now fighting the occupiers. And every day of mine is filled with information that I want to understand and that I can explain to others” (Tatiana, a teacher from Shostka); “It’s an important topic. Not only did we talk today, we will use this information and pass it on to others. Today it is our front” (Halyna, journalist from Zhytomyr region); “I would like to draw your attention to the fact that the training was organized by people who are currently in a city actually surrounded by rashist troops, and this also proves that Ukraine is invincible. I think that information on this topic should be communicated to a large number of people. Perhaps you will create a special course for teachers who need to understand information and teach students to do so”(Natalia, a teacher from Kyiv).
Conducting the training, the Department of Journalism and Philology FPSC SSU is aware that the level of media literacy during the war saves not only every single citizen, media literacy saves Ukraine and does not enslave the entire civilized world. Let's not forget that #Mediaspace_leads_to_the_universe.