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Media literacy

Kurdish news reaches people through many outlets, many with owners and interests. Media literacy helps readers ask who is speaking and why.

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Civic · programme · in preparation

Media literacy

Kurdish news reaches people through many outlets, many with owners and interests. Media literacy helps readers ask who is speaking and why.

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Academy128 courses, 128 open for enrolmentCivic3 campaigns, 6 programmesHeritage70 days to keep, 34 chronology entriesNews80 approved sources, no confirmed events yetCommunity Cellsforming. No Chapter is recognised yet
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What happens next. A steward reads your note and checks the source. The page changes only after that. You are not named.

What it offers

4
Source checks

How to find out who owns an outlet and how it is funded.

Images and video

How to check whether an image is old, edited or from elsewhere.

Across languages

How to compare a story in Kurdish varieties, Arabic, Persian, Turkish and host languages.

Digital safety

How families can protect accounts and devices.

Descriptive only: nothing runs before the state says so.

Who it is for

4 audiences
Readers of every ageParentsStudentsCommunity Cell leads

How it works

1
Learn: take the media literacy course.
2
Practise: use the checks on stories you read.
3
Compare: read the same story in several outlets.
4
Report: send doubtful items to the news verification desk.

More in Civic

5 programmes
Civic learning for life where Kurds live, and for public life everywhere. It teaches and never campaigns: no party, candidate or armed actor is endorsed.

Key

labels and checks
  • verifiedA figure or claim read at its primary source by a steward or checkers from at least two communities.
  • secondaryA figure or claim cited through a reviewed work rather than read at its primary source.
  • to verifyA figure or claim whose source has not yet been read; it stays in the verification queue.
  • unknownNo source yet. We show unknown, not a guess.
A steward checks the source before anything changes. You are not named.
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