AFP to Participate in Media Literacy Week Conference with the Lakmusz-HDMO Project for International Fact-Checking Day
AFP, alongside its partners in the Lakmusz-HDMO project—an initiative funded by the European Union to combat disinformation—is participating in a week-long event in Budapest to mark International Fact-Checking Day on 2 April 2025.
The conference, organised by the French Institute in Budapest, aims to promote awareness around the importance of fact-checking and media literacy in the digital age. It will feature workshops, round table discussions, documentary screenings and debates on the theme of misinformation.
For the second consecutive year, AFP and the HDMO hub partners will collaborate with the French institute in Hungary to reflect on issues relating to disinformation, the media landscape and the role of fact-checkers. This collaboration will feature a roundtable discussion and the final conference of the first phase of the HDMO project.
A media literacy workshop for high school students, co-moderated by Isabelle Wirth, an AFP journalist and member of the Lakmusz-HDMO project, and Sylvain Louvet, co-founder of the Fake Off association, will also be part of the programme.
In addition, AFP will host a fact-checking training session led by Marion Dautry and Ede Zaborsky for a group of journalists and students. The Idea Foundation will also conduct training for teachers, both as part of the HDMO initiative.
In response to the growing challenge of identifying AI-generated content and ongoing scrutiny of European Union digital services legislation, this event will provide an important opportunity to engage the Hungarian public on these pressing issues.
Earlier in March, a US regulator raised concerns that the European regulation could pose a "risk" to "freedom of speech" during discussions at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
