Served up: The menu for your news check

What skills do young people need to critically classify manipulative content on social media? How can they be empowered to recognize false information as well as populist and extremist narratives? To mark Safer Internet Day, Teachtoday invites Lidia de Reese (Media Education Officer at the Voluntary Self-Regulation Body for Multimedia Service Providers (FSM)) to the talk “Served up: The menu for your news check”.

The interview with Lidia de Reese is about disinformation online and its influence on children and young people. They discuss how young people consume news, why they are particularly susceptible to misinformation and what role social media and AI play in this. There will also be practical tips on how parents and professionals can help to identify falsehoods and promote critical thinking.

In order for everyone to benefit equally from the opportunities offered by digitalization, people must be able and willing to act responsibly online. Deutsche Telekom promotes the media skills of young and old with a wide range of globally available offers - always with the aim of ensuring that everyone can navigate the digital world safely and confidently. To mark Safer Internet Day 2025, for example, many European initiatives are offering various campaigns on topics relating to the confident use of digital media.