Untold Stories - a media literacy response to mis & dis information
Reference ocds-b5fd17-26ad6f7b-8923-40bf-931a-5983cd57afcc · OFCOM
Closed. Submission deadline: 6 January 2025. Estimated value: £150,000.
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Under the Online Safety Act, Ofcom has media literacy duties including a responsibility to commission activities that support women and girls, help people spot and avoid misinformation, and understand how platforms use our personal data. This ITT sets out our requirements to help people spot and avoid mis and disinformation through understanding how stories become news. This will build their media literacy knowledge, skills and behaviour and their engagement with news. Media literacy has a role to play in supporting people to possess the critical thinking skills to better spot mis and disinformation and identify news and information they can trust. literacy, sometimes known as news literacy, teaches audiences how to judge the reliability and credibility of news and information, and distinguish professionally produced news from other forms of content. Our research showing that 44% of people agreed with the statement "the more a story is edited, the less it is likely to be true" suggests that enhancing understanding of how stories become news could better equip people to make more informed judgements about mis and disinformation. At the same time, local media has a vital role t…
Official publications
| Medium | Reference | Date |
|---|---|---|
| FTS | 3dee3a8c-a9ad-4b34-9e95-1d4cbffc0693-809047 | 9 December 2024 |
| Contracts Finder | 3dee3a8c-a9ad-4b34-9e95-1d4cbffc0693-809047 | 9 December 2024 |
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