Thomas Nygren|Mona Guath|Anton Axelsson|Divina Frau?Meigs
Combatting Visual Fake News with a Professional Fact-Checking Tool in Education in France, Romania, Spain and Sweden
Uppsala University|Uppsala University|Uppsala University|Université Sorbonne Nouvelle
educational technical resources regarded central combating disinformation safeguarding democracy era fake news study investigated whether professional factchecking tool could utilised curricular activity make pupils skilled determining credibility digital news inspire use digital tools transliteracy technocognition addition explored pupils performance attitudes regarding digital news tools varied across four countries france romania spain sweden findings showed twohour intervention statistically significant impact teenagers abilities determine credibility fake images videos also found intervention inspired pupils use digital tools information credibility assessments importantly intervention make pupils sceptical credible news impact intervention greater romania spain among pupils sweden france greater impact two countries argue due cultural context fact pupils romania spain learned focus less gut feelings increased use digital tools positive attitude toward use factchecking tool pupils sweden france