58 youth learned to detect and deny hoaxes in the Anti-Bulera Youth Camp organized by Maldita.es Foundation

During October, these youth received online training sessions to later travel to Navamorcuende, Toledo, from the Valencian Community, Castilla-La Mancha, Andalucía and Madrid. The main objective of the program was for young people to learn what the characteristics of misinformation and its consequences are, why hoaxes are spread and the keys to identifying them.

During a weekend, through games and innovative methodologies such as a gymkhana or a content creation laboratory, participants also developed a communication campaign on social networks to fight online misinformation and increase the reach and impact of the videos produced by them.

The program has had the collaboration of Cibercorresponsales, a project of the Childhood Platform that began in 2010 and promotes participation through a safe space where young people are speakers of their own reality. In the Cibercorrespondents blog network, one of the camp participants has told her experience : “It is a different way to learn and make many friends. The camp was 3 days, but those few days taught us a new world.” In this post , the young  girl wrote about what she learned during the encounter.