# Media literacy

_Programme · The Kurdish Cooperation Organization · https://kurds.global/civic/programmes/media-literacy/_

Skills to judge sources, spot manipulation and stay safe online.

## Record

- **Platform**: Civic
- **State**: in-preparation
- **Lede**: Kurdish news reaches people through many outlets, many with owners and interests. Media literacy helps readers ask who is speaking and why.
- **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.
- **Audience**: Readers of every age, Parents, Students, Community Cell leads
- **Step 1**: Learn: take the media literacy course.
- **Step 2**: Practise: use the checks on stories you read.
- **Step 3**: Compare: read the same story in several outlets.
- **Step 4**: Report: send doubtful items to the news verification desk.

## Provenance

Records updated 2026-11-11. Every value keeps its measure, year, source and label (verified, secondary, to verify); unknown is shown as unknown. Verify, add a source or report this record on its page.

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## See also

- [Civic](https://kurds.global/civic/)