DiscoverCharity Digital Podcast143: Misinformation, disinformation, and conspiracy theories
143: Misinformation, disinformation, and conspiracy theories

143: Misinformation, disinformation, and conspiracy theories

Update: 2024-10-01
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Misinformation, disinformation, and conspiracy theories can be a problem for charities by negatively impacting upon service users, employees, and volunteers. Here, charities’ responsibility is two-fold: avoiding spreading misinformation themselves and quelling false information about their cause.



Ensuring trustworthy online information is an aspect of digital inclusion, supporting people to make the most of the digital resources available. Media literacy skills are a key element of this, empowering digital users to safeguard personal and societal health and wellbeing. It’s also up to organisations to do their bit in countering the spread.



In this podcast, we explore how false information spreads, its impacts, how charities can avoid spreading it, and approaches to address misinformation, disinformation, and conspiracy theories about your charitable cause. 



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143: Misinformation, disinformation, and conspiracy theories

143: Misinformation, disinformation, and conspiracy theories

Charity Digital Podcast