Chairman of the management board
The Bronislaw Geremek Foundation
Togetherness, values-based,
openness
Critical thinkers
ADAM REICHARDT
Editor-in-Chief of New Eastern Europe
Collaborative, principled, mission-driven
ANDRZEJ KOZŁOWSKI
Editor-in-Chief of CyberDefence24.pl
Meticulous, ambitious, stress resistant
DALIA BANKAUSKAITE
Country Coordinator of Start2Think platform, Lecturer at Vilnius University,
Project Manager at ResPublica
Professional, ethical, in-depth
KAMIL BASAJ
Founder and President of the Board
of INFO OPS Poland Foundation
Disciplined, ordered, task-oriented
ROBERT TOMLJENOVIĆ
Vice-president of Council for Electronic Media, Deputy Director of Agency for Electronic Media
Responsible, persistent, constructive
DOROTA GŁOWACKA
Lawyer at Panoptykon Foundation
Engaged, self-starting, thorough
SASA LEKOVIC
President of Investigative Journalism Center
Hardworking, innovative, keen to learn
GIEDRIUS SAKALAUSKAS
Director of Res Publica
Civic Resilience Center
Sincere, goal oriented, reliable
KAROLINA ZBYTNIEWSKA
Editor-in-Chief and Managing Director at EURACTIV Poland
Reliable, knowledgeable, engaged
AGNIESZKA MIKULSKA JOLLES
Project`s manager, researcher and trainer at Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights
Engaged, inquiring, open (to new experiences)
VIKTORAS DAUKSAS
Head of Debunk EU
Data driven, hard facts, tech know how
JULIA GRZYBOWSKA
President of the Warsaw Institute
Determined, perfectionist, goal-oriented
The most disgusting nonsense is pumped into people with the help of the latest technologies.
Stanisław Lem, Polish SF writer
In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell, a British writer
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle, a Greek philosopher
The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.
Garry Kasparov, a Russian chess grandmaster, writer, and political activist
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
Winston S. Churchill, a British statesman, army officer, and writer
Newspapers want to keep us constantly anxious so as to direct our emotions not to what they should really be about.
Olga Tokarczuk, a Polish writer, awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature
In the time of a real plague let us be immune
to the virus of a lie.
Donald Tusk, former president of the European Council
Critical thinking doesn’t mean we disparage everything; it means that we try to distinguish between claims with evidence and those without.
Daniel J. Levitin, writer
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Albert Einstein, physicist
The best response to disinformation and propaganda is free and independent press, is the work of journalists. When they ask the difficult questions, then disinformation and propaganda will never succeed.