A dedicated Eurobarometer survey, published by the European Parliament, takes an in-depth look at media habits, including trust in different media sources. Awareness and media recall 68% of respondents recall having recently obtained news about the European Union via either press, internet, television or radio – with considerable variation across Member States, between 49% in […]
Content Creator Scholarship
World Nomads is inviting aspiring content creators, of any nationality, to a 3-4 day Content Creation Trip where they will create content on assignment to meet a supplied brief. The trip must be within a 4-hour flight of the winner’s home city. Destinations and content to be shot on the trip will be workshopped and agreed upon […]
TikTok improves its platform to better protect consumers
Following dialogues with the Commission and the network of national consumer protection (CPC) authorities, TikTok has committed to align its practices with the EU rules on advertising and consumer protection, namely, the Unfair commercial practices Directive, the Consumer rights Directive and the Unfair contract terms Directive. This dialogue first originated from a complaint of the European Consumer Organisation (BEUC). […]
HORIZON EUROPE: Politics and the impact of online social networks and new media
Expected Outcome Projects should contribute to all of the following expected outcomes: Understand the changes wrought on democratic processes by new technologies. Produce evidence-based recommendations to address the opportunities and challenges for political behaviour and democratic engagement presented by social platforms and new media. Enhance capacities for digital citizenship. Scope Social media and other internet-based […]
Bypassing age verification measures on social media
An EU-backed study has shown how easy it is for children to bypass the mechanisms that the most popular apps use to verify their age: all they have to do is lie. The measures that popular social media apps use to verify age during the sign-up process are basically ineffective. According to research supported by […]