After months of co-creation, testing, and collaboration with educators across Europe, we are excited to announce that the EDUbox Critical Thinking resource is now officially available in English!

Europe is entering a period where information has become both a resource and a battleground. From foreign interference campaigns to AI-generated deepfakes, the challenges facing European democracies are no longer sporadic or peripheral, they are structural. Recognising this, the European Commission has introduced the European Democracy Shield, a comprehensive initiative intended to strengthen the EU’s democratic systems against manipulation, disinformation, and hybrid threats

Front Cover of EDMO Report (source: EDMO ) In the course of our work at TITAN (designing and deploying an AI-powered Socratic coach to build citizens’ critical thinking skills) we have kept a close eye on the broader ecosystem of how Europe's democracies are responding to disinformation. The recent European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO) report How is disinformation addressed in the Member States of the European Union? – 27 country cases provides a timely and important map

Disinformation isn’t new, but its speed, reach, and sophistication have exploded in the age of social media and AI. Our open-access paper, Mapping Automatic Social Media Information Disorder: The Role of Bots and AI in Spreading Misleading Information in Society (PLOS ONE, 2024), by Andrea Tomassi, Andrea Falegnami, and Elpidio Romano, offers one of the clearest maps yet of how this phenomenon works, and what we can do about it.

This one-hour webinar deep dive is essential viewing for AI developers, researchers, and policymakers interested in the intersection of LLMs, ethics, and digital literacy, and for anyone who believes the future of AI isn’t just about intelligence, but wisdom.

You are warmly invited to Thinking Through the Noise: A Socratic Dialogue on Information Integrity, an open session bringing together professors, students, educators, innovators, designers, and citizens to explore how critical thinking, media literacy, and AI can help us navigate the growing complexity of the digital world.

A major international study from the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and BBC Research & Development has revealed something alarming about how AI assistants handle the news. Across 3,000 queries in 14 languages, researchers tested leading AI platforms on their ability to deliver accurate information about real-world news. The findings seem stark:  AI assistants mislead users far more often than expected:

We are pleased to announce that our cross-consortium chapter, 'Building a GenAI Socratic Chatbot for Critical Thinking: Insights From Cross-Cultural Cocreation, Living Labs and Pilots,' has been published in the new IGI Global volume Modern Media Literacy: Generative AI, Social Media, and the News (9798337308722).

As artificial intelligence continues to evolve at breakneck speed, so too do the threats to information integrity. Recently, major...

We’re excited to share the official launch of the EDUbox “Kritisch Denken” (Critical Thinking), a new educational tool designed for secondary schools across Flanders. Developed by VRT in close collaboration with Artevelde Hogeschool and several other Flemish partners, this EDUbox draws on insights and methodologies developed during the TITAN project. It’s a practical step forward in promoting media literacy and critical engagement among young people, a timel

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Scrolling through a news feed or watching a viral video might seem like routine digital behaviour. But for educators, every click...

This week in Brussels, we had the honor of participating in the Media Literacy Expert Group (MLEG) Meeting , an event dedicated to...

Uncover the critical factors in evaluating online news. Dive into the interplay between trustworthiness and critical thinking in the digital

On the 26th of February at the Radisson Blu hotel in Brussels, a gathering of minds converged for the latest EU Media Literacy Expert...