მედიის განვითარების ფონდი | Media Development Foundation (MDF)

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Media Development Foundation (MDF) is a leading Georgian NGO in media monitoring, research, and communication, specialized in detecting and verifying fake media content. With its well-established media literacy programs and experienced fact-checkers, MDF aims to promote critical thinking in media consumers and to raise awareness on the importance of fighting fake news. In 2014 MDF launched a fact checking web-portal Myth Detector to track disinformation flow, to analyze major trends in propaganda methods and respond to fake media content with fact based approach. Based on practical experience in fact-checking, MDF has developed media literacy training program with special focus on verification of fake media content and provides series of workshops and trainings for teachers, students and young EU ambassadors, in Tbilisi and regions of Georgia, as well as, organizes 3-month courses in media literacy - "Myth Detector Laboratory", working with youth between 18-28. At an international level, MDF works together with Deutsche Welle Akademie’s Media and Information Literacy Expert Network (MILEN) promoting critical thinking and since 2019 is a signatory and a badge holder of the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) of the Poynter Institute - dedicated to bringing together fact-checkers worldwide. To combat pro-Kremlin disinformation and propaganda, since 2016 MDF has been cooperating with EUvsDisinfo - the flagship project of the European External Action Service’s East StratCom Task Force. MDF has also been actively engaged with Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) since 2018, bringing together journalists from all Eastern Partnership countries to discuss anti-Western propaganda and fake content in the media landscape all over the world and in post-Soviet countries specifically.

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Media Development Foundation (MDF) is a leading Georgian NGO in media monitoring, research, and communication, specialized in detecting and verifying fake media content. With its well-established media literacy programs and experienced fact-checkers, MDF aims to promote critical thinking in media consumers and to raise awareness on the importance of fighting fake news. In 2014 MDF launched a fact checking web-portal Myth Detector to track disinformation flow, to analyze major trends in propaganda methods and respond to fake media content with fact based approach. Based on practical experience in fact-checking, MDF has developed media literacy training program with special focus on verification of fake media content and provides series of workshops and trainings for teachers, students and young EU ambassadors, in Tbilisi and regions of Georgia, as well as, organizes 3-month courses in media literacy - "Myth Detector Laboratory", working with youth between 18-28. At an international level, MDF works together with Deutsche Welle Akademie’s Media and Information Literacy Expert Network (MILEN) promoting critical thinking and since 2019 is a signatory and a badge holder of the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) of the Poynter Institute - dedicated to bringing together fact-checkers worldwide. To combat pro-Kremlin disinformation and propaganda, since 2016 MDF has been cooperating with EUvsDisinfo - the flagship project of the European External Action Service’s East StratCom Task Force. MDF has also been actively engaged with Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) since 2018, bringing together journalists from all Eastern Partnership countries to discuss anti-Western propaganda and fake content in the media landscape all over the world and in post-Soviet countries specifically.

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Tbilisi

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2008

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