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MEDIA LITERACY
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Protect it.
Europinion is committed to strengthening media literacy in an age defined by disinformation, not as a peripheral skill, but as a cornerstone of democratic resilience. At Europinion, we work to equip young people with the critical capacities they need to navigate complex information landscapes, resist manipulation, and participate fully in civic life. Through rigorous research, policy advocacy, and youth-led innovation, we aim to build a more informed, empowered generation of democratic citizens.
Navigating the Information Disorder: European Youth in the Age of Digital Disinformation
How are young Europeans navigating an age of digital disinformation and what must change to support them?
Our FLAGSHIP peer-reviewed publication, Navigating the Information Disorder: European Youth in the Age of Digital Disinformation, draws on in-depth research, YOUTH TESTIMONY, and POLICY ANALYSIS to explore how disinformation shapes civic life across Europe, and what meaningful, YOUTH-CENTRED RESPONSES look like. Read the report below in full screen or download PDF here.
Our research explores how youth-centred responses can secure young individuals media literacy.
In a time of geopolitical instability, polarisation, and algorithmic overload, the ability to navigate information critically is not just a skill — it is a CIVIC IMPERATIVE. Navigating the Information Disorder is Europinion’s flagship policy report on how young Europeans EXPERIENCE, RESPOND TO, and RESIST digital disinformation in their everyday lives. Based on ORIGINAL FIELD RESEARCH and INTERVIEWS across multiple EU member states, the report explores:
How young people perceive disinformation in online
and offline spaces
The impact of disinformation on democratic trust, identity,
and political engagement
The limitations of current top-down media literacy approaches
Youth-led strategies for building civic resilience and digital agency
Our central finding is clear: to counter the spread and influence of disinformation, young people must be treated not as passive recipients of information, but as INFORMED, EMPOWERED, and CRITICAL actors. Media literacy must be participatory, contextual, and rooted in lived experience.
This report offers concrete recommendations for policymakers, educators, and civil society actors seeking to co-create scalable, INCLUSIVE RESPONSES to the information disorder. It forms part of Europinion’s broader commitment to CHAMPIONING YOUTH AGENCY in safeguarding European democratic spaces.
Navigating the Information Disorder has also been recognised by POLICYMAKERS for its IMPORTANCE. Europinion presented the report's main findings before the European Parliament's CULT Committee and discussed its implications with the EUDS Committee's delegation to London.
AUTHORS: Éléonore Daxhelet, Adélie Aubin, Samuel Crooks, Maxime Zigrand, Will Kingston-Cox
PEER REVIEWERS: Dr Jan Grzymski (Jagiellonian University), Nachiket Midha and Ho Ting (Bosco) Hung (OCPSG; University of Oxford)
Europinion at the 5th Youth Diaspora Forum, LSORM.
From 9–10 August 2026, Europinion undertook a programme of media literacy, youth engagement, and institutional outreach in Chișinău, Republic of Moldova, focused on strengthening resilience to disinformation and developing relationships with partners working across Moldova’s information and democratic landscape.
On 9 August, Europinion delivered “Think Before You Share: Disinformation, Media Literacy and Navigating the Digital World” at the 5th Youth Diaspora Forum, organised by the League of Students Originating from the Republic of Moldova (LSORM) at Digital Park in Chișinău.
The interactive workshop explored how misinformation and disinformation spread, including how claims can become increasingly distorted, amplified, and emotionally charged as they move between sources and platforms. Participants were introduced to a practical PAUSE approach: Pause, Ask, Understand, Search, and Engage responsibly, encouraging them to identify precisely what is being claimed, examine its source and context, look beyond the original source, and make a considered decision about whether and how information should be shared.
Participants then worked in breakout groups through a real-world disinformation case study, assessing a series of claims against progressively introduced evidence. The exercise challenged them to distinguish between original information and interpretation, identify unsupported or misleading claims, and explain the reasoning behind their final judgement. The workshop concluded by emphasising the importance of reading beyond headlines, recognising when uncertainty becomes certainty as information spreads, and checking both what a source says and what it does not say.
On 10 August, Europinion was invited to meet representatives of the British Embassy in Chișinău, including members of its political and communications teams. Discussions focused on Europinion’s work in Moldova, media literacy and disinformation resilience, and the wider Moldovan information environment, including patterns of information consumption and challenges facing Gagauzia.
Europinion was also invited to participate in a roundtable with Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration Cristina Gherasimov, discussing Moldova’s European integration, the role of young people and civil society, and opportunities for sustained engagement with organisations contributing to Moldova’s democratic and European trajectory.
The visit formed part of Europinion’s growing engagement in Moldova and our wider work to develop practical, research-informed, and locally grounded approaches to media literacy and democratic resilience. By combining direct educational activities with institutional and civil-society engagement, Europinion seeks both to equip young people with practical tools for navigating complex information environments and to build partnerships capable of supporting longer-term resilience.
Europinion at the European Parliament: Empowering Youth Against Disinformation
On 8 April, Europinion addressed the European Parliament’s Committee on Culture and Education, contributing to a vital discussion on strengthening media literacy in the digital age. Representing our organisation, we highlighted the urgent need to equip young people not only to identify and resist disinformation, but to engage with information as active, critically minded civic actors.
Our intervention reaffirmed a central principle of our work: resilience to disinformation must be built with young people, not merely for them. Addressing today’s complex and rapidly evolving information environments requires moving beyond top-down instruction or one-size-fits-all messaging. Instead, meaningful engagement must foreground youth agency, lived experience, and digital realities.
In an increasingly polarised and contested geopolitical context, the ability to navigate information critically is not optional—it is essential. Europinion remains firmly committed to advancing this agenda through evidence-led research, on-the-ground collaboration, and sustained partnership with European stakeholders.
We were pleased to unveil the key findings of our research policy report, Navigating the Information Disorder: European Youth in the Age of Digital Disinformation, during our intervention. The report offers in-depth insights and actionable recommendations for co-creating participatory, scalable, and empowering solutions that place young people at the centre of Europe’s response to the disinformation challenge.
Following the publication of Navigating the Information Disorder, Europinion met with the European Parliament's Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield (EUDS) as part of the committee's fact-finding mission to the United Kingdom on 5 June 2025 at Europe House. The discussion centred around the way young people consume information and how digitally native generations are increasingly exposed to disinformation. We were pleased to be joined by our partners, the Oxford Computational Political Science Group (OCPSG). You can read the EUDS' Mission Report here.
Europinion at the European Youth Event: Depolarising Journalism
Our polity is sick. Bad journalism is to blame. News media is polarised, picking sides and telling lies. Healthy societies thrive on open discourse where dialogue leads to constructive outcomes. Good journalism is honest journalism. It's time to depolarise!
On 19 April 2024, Europinion conducted its participatory 'Depolarising Journalism: Learn How to Rebuild a Healthy European Society' workshop at the European Youth Event (EYE) in Berlin. The 'Depolarising Journalism' workshop outlined the issues with political journalism in Europe today - polarisation, partisanship, deliberate falsification - and challenges participants to engage in open political discussion. Participants learnt how to be an engaging reporter, without relying on clickbait, fake news, or vitriol. Participants left the workshop with a working knowledge of the present issues in European political journalism, how to mitigate and overcome these challenges, and how they can help create healthy societies through good journalism.
The workshop was conducted by Will Kingston-Cox, Cyrus Larcombe-Moore, Sam Crooks, Alexandra Luca and Adélie Aubin. We were pleased to be joined by MEP Lena Düpont.
Europinion also was honoured to present its work on media literacy and depolarising journalism at the Youth Plenary alongside MEP Hildegard Bentele on 20 April. Click here to read the reflective article on our work at EYE Berlin by Will Kingston-Cox.
Europinion then held a second instalment of the 'Depolarising Journalism' workshop at the EYE in Forlì on 18 May. You can watch both the highlight of the workshop and our feature on Italian television below.