• Priority Area Boosting Fact-checking Activities in Europe
• Funding Round / Action Types 7th Funding Round – Scale-up Projects
• Year 2024, 2025
• Country Italy
• Project Status Ongoing

This project tackles the issue of climate change with a focus on false perceptions, mis- and disinformation claims, trends and narratives around the topic.

It aims at scaling up the impact of “A Fuoco”, our weekly newsletter (in Italian) entirely dedicated to climate change and related mis- and disinformation. The newsletter was launched in August 2023 by two Italian independent media organizations focused on fact-checking and reliable information (Facta.news and Slow News), with seed funding from EMIF.

Building on the successes of “A Fuoco”, which in six months of activity has overcome expectations in terms of reach and impact, this project strives to sustain the delivery of accurate and timely information about the climate crisis to target audiences, while also focusing on equipping them with “antibodies” from being vulnerable to misinformation on highly debated environmental issues.

Activities will focus on (a) repurposing the newsletter contents into new multimedia products and activities aimed at empowering target groups, (b) creating a stronger and more engaged community around the project, while also (c) giving continuity to the weekly publication.

Main project deliverables include:

1. The publication of 44 new issues of the weekly newsletter, with an expected raise in number of subscribers from 4.100 to 8.000;
2. The launch of a brand new podcast on climate-related disinformation, with an average of 2.000 downloads per each podcast episode;
3. The launch of a brand new video mini-series on climate-related reporting, with 10-15.000 visualizations for the whole series;
4. The launch of a workshop series on climate reporting, with the direct involvement of at least 450 professional journalists and students of schools of journalism.