Junior Report is a news outlet that each week covers a global current affairs topic from different perspectives, explaining reality in a clear and accessible way. Its goal is to foster critical thinking among young people so they can understand what is happening in the world and form their own opinions. Junior Report, which collaborates with La Vanguardia for its Spanish edition, produces digital magazines for more than thirty schools in Catalonia, and it is on these platforms where Maldita.es content will be published.
For both projects, education is key to preventing the spread of disinformation: if people are able to identify biased or poorly constructed information, they will also avoid sharing it and may even stop consuming the channels that publish it. In this way, information can help build a more just society that is more aware of the issues affecting it.
Maldita Educa joins the RED project
Maldita.es’ educational initiative will collaborate with the RED project (Revista Escolar Digital), a network of school newspapers promoted by Junior Report in which secondary school students become journalists, writing and managing their own publications.
RED newspapers will include the section “Learn with Maldito Bulo”, where hoaxes and debunked stories from the platform will be published. In this way, the Maldita Educa team will help identify and debunk false information that has gone viral among young people.
Each “hoax” will be accompanied by the key elements needed to recognize why it is false and to explain how the verification process was carried out.
“Disinformation is a major problem that we must try to neutralize with the help of experts”, adds Francesc Castanyer, director of Blue Globe Media, the company that publishes Junior Report.
This project joins others developed by Maldita Educa, Maldita.es’ initiative dedicated to media literacy, the creation of educational materials, and classes and workshops in schools, high schools, universities and all kinds of institutions.