About this Event
This skill sharing session will be an opportunity to explore a pressing and challenging question:
How can people involved in the voluntary and community sector, schools, local government officers and those in partner organisations respond to misinformation, disinformation and conspiracy theories and what are the appropriate and effective approaches?
Divisive narratives, including on social media, can cause and exacerbate a range of problems: they undermine and erode trust in legitimate local organisations; generate cynicism, anxiety and fear; lead to misinformed decision making, causing some people to put themselves and others at risk; promote prejudice, racism, community tensions and polarisation; and can spill over into hate crime and extremism ‘IRL’ (‘in real life’).
How can workers in councils and other public agencies push back against these problems? And how can voluntary, community and faith organisations respond when people are being influenced by mis- and dis-information?
This interactive session will:
- Assess the problem. What is misinformation? How do conspiracy theories work?
- Consider why and how people are drawn to false narratives
- Share insights about the causes and effects of divisive attitudes
- Identify potentially effective approaches to countering misinformation and disinformation
Click the links below to sign up for a place on one of the sessions. Numbers are limited to a maximum of twenty-five participants, so please do register as soon as possible. Please note there are other in-person training slots avaliable, except Monday 30th March which will take place online via Teams.
Belong Network is a non-government organisation and network of partner organisations committed to working for a more connected and less divided society
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Carrow House, 301 King Street, Norwich, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
