klicksafe award 2020 - for safe information on the web: Five strong online offerings against disinformation nominated
They stand up to disinformation and fake news: This year, the EU initiative klicksafe is awarding prizes to online sites that provide fact-based information to ensure trust and orientation in the increasingly competitive news world. For the first time - in addition to the prize awarded by the expert jury - the "PublikumsLike" will be awarded, for which online voting is now open. The announcement of the winning formats of the klicksafe award will take place on November 26.
Düsseldorf/Ludwigshafen, November 09, 2020. - Five digital information services have been nominated for the klicksafe prize 2020, which is awarded this year "for safe information on the net". The EU initiative klicksafe has selected three Instagram and two YouTube channels that counter rumors and misinformation by providing factual information.
Nominated are:
- The YouTube channel Breaking Lab takes viewers into the endless universe of science and shows with the help of spectacular experiments and current scientific findings that complex topics can also be fun.
- erklaermirmal is a queer and (post)migrant explanation format on Instagram that offers a platform to marginalized voices that have so far often been lost in the media world. In this way, new ways of looking at things and possibilities for action are highlighted and the political discourse is opened up to everyone.
- The Instagram format News-WG relies on digital storytelling and the playful presentation of political facts to get young people excited about politics and social issues.
- quarks.de, the Instagram channel of the WDR television format, clarifies many a scientific myth in short videos and meaningful graphics and makes people want to get to grips with complex issues.
- The funk format Y collective reports on YouTube about the big stories of our time. In transparently researched web documentaries and reports, viewers are taken up close and personal and experience a world away from the mainstream.
Dr. Tobias Schmid (Director of the Landesanstalt für Medien NRW): "The world has probably always been very complex, and even I, who has a bit more life experience than most of the users of the nominated offerings, don't always find it easy to see through current events. People who can explain things online in a well-founded and differentiated way are therefore more important than ever - especially in this unexpectedly digital year. I'm pleased that in 2020 we'll be awarding the klicksafe prize to offerings that counterbalance hysteria and conspiracy ideologies and thus help protect our democracy."
This year, the klicksafe prize will be awarded in two prize categories for the first time. For the new "PublikumsLike" runs immediately a public on-line Voting, in which all Internetnutzer:innen without registration can participate. This goes still up to and including 26 November under: https://www.klicksafe.de/klicksafepreis
In the main category, the klicksafe Award 2020 - For Safe Information on the Web will be presented as usual by a renowned independent jury of experts.
The winning formats of both the Jury Award and the "AudienceLike" will be announced on November 26, 2020.
Statements by the jury members, more detailed information on the nominated offerings, and public discussion posts on them can be found:
- on the klicksafe channels on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, each under the username @klicksafe
- there as well under the hashtags #klicksafepreis2020 and #publikumslike2020,
- on the website of the klicksafe prize 2020 at: https://www.klicksafe.de/klicksafepreis
About klicksafe
klicksafe promotes people's online literacy and supports competent and critical use of the Internet through a wide range of offerings. The EU initiative is politically and economically independent and is implemented in Germany by the media institutions in Rhineland-Palatinate (coordinator) and in North Rhine-Westphalia. On the website www.klicksafe.de , users can find a wide range of up-to-date information, practical tips and teaching materials on digital services and topics. The target groups are teachers, educators, parents, children, young people and multipliers. klicksafe is the national, German awareness center and is funded by the CEF Telecom program of the European Union. Since 2008, klicksafe has also coordinated the Safer Internet Centre DE, which includes the Internet hotlines of eco, FSM and jugendschutz.net as well as the helpline Nummer gegen Kummer.