No Rumour Health in Madrid
Partners of the No Rumour Health project met in Madrid in December to finalize the preparation work and to have the application and training modules ready. The meeting was attended by representatives of the University of Valencia, the Instituto #SaludsinBulos (host of the meeting), DanmarComputers, FyG and Evropei Ixnilates.
During the pandemic, health hoaxes have multiplied and the elderly have been among the main victims. Many of them, in fact, have acted as unwitting spreaders of fake news. For this reason, the No Rumour Health partners have decided to expand the content of the app to explain the new Covid19 hoaxes. At the beginning of the project, the Covid19 hoaxes were linked to the origin of the pandemic and the supposed miracle treatments to combat the virus, while during 2021, fake news about vaccines have multiplied.
Presentation of the app in institutions
At the meeting it was agreed that the end-of-project events will be especially focused on meetings with representatives of institutions and senior citizens' organisations. These will take place during the month of January and will allow the project partners to present the application, the modules and the digital book and, thus, to promote its use among older people.
It was also decided to include the interviews with experts that have been done in the ebook on health misinformation. These interviews provide an analysis of the phenomenon of health hoaxes and their impact on older people in each of the participating countries.
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