{"id":1461,"date":"2021-05-05T10:52:16","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T08:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hirondelle.org\/sticking-to-the-facts-building-trust-our-cure-for-disinformation"},"modified":"2021-05-05T10:52:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T08:52:16","slug":"sticking-to-the-facts-building-trust-our-cure-for-disinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hirondelle.org\/en\/sticking-to-the-facts-building-trust-our-cure-for-disinformation","title":{"rendered":"Sticking to the Facts, Building Trust: our Cure for Disinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have just celebrated World Press Freedom Day on Monday 3 May. The theme chosen by UNESCO this year was “information as a public good”. The vital and public interest role of access to quality information has been at the heart of Fondation Hirondelle’s work for over 25 years. It is this experience that we draw on today to explain our approach to responding to disinformation, a plague that undermines all societies around the world.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Fondation Hirondelle’s approach to disinformation centres \u00a0<\/span>on the fundamental principles of \u00a0<\/span>journalism and on the lessons learned from over 25 years of applying these principles in highly fragile contexts, where access to reliable information for the majority is not a given, and where rumours, hate speech and propaganda undermine peace building and development.<\/span><\/p>\n

Our response to disinformation is based on two complementary axes: sticking to the facts and building trust.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0STICKING TO THE FACTS<\/span><\/p>\n