The book "O Direito de Não ser Desinformado. Media, fact-cheking e literacias em Portugal" will be presented on June 20, starting at 6:00 p.m., at the 95th Lisbon Book Fair 2025.

The work, coordinated by CIES researcher Vania Baldi, will also feature Paulo Pena, a fact-checking specialist, and Rita Figueiras, a professor of communication at the Catholic University.

SYNOPSIS

In O Direito de Não Ser Desinformado (The Right Not to Be Misinformed), the value of information culture and interest in validated knowledge is questioned, the dynamics involved in social communication and in the formation and performance of public spheres are analyzed, and a call is made for media and democratic literacy among producers, mediators, and consumers of information.

In a world where journalistic mediation now shares the informational stage with opinion spaces and social networks, a group of researchers and communication professionals explore, in an unprecedented way, the cultural broth from which the disinformation phenomena that condition contemporary political and social life emerge.