Associate professor
Vilnius University, Lithuania
Open, critical, responsible
NENAD PEJIC
Former vice-president
of Radio Slobodna Europa
Persistent, creative, patient
LEILA BICAKCIC
Executive Director
Centre for Investigative Reporting
Fair, professional, relaying on facts
TOMAS KAZULENAS
Director and co-founder
of Civic Resilience Initiative
Proactive, attentive, creative
Luckily, media and information literacy gives you the tools…
AUSRINE DIRZINSKAITE
Co-coordinator,
Learn before You Vote
Devoted, cooperative, enjoyable
JUDITA AKROMIENE
Director of National Network
of Education NGOs
House of Europe
Open, perseverant,
with holistic approach
IGNACY NIEMCZYCKI
Chairman of the management board
The Bronislaw Geremek Foundation
Togetherness, values-based,
openness
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
Elektroninių medijų tarybos viceprezidentas, Elektroninių medijų agentūros direktoriaus pavaduotojas
Atsakingas, atkaklus, konstruktyvus
DOROTA GŁOWACKA
Lawyer at Panoptykon Foundation
Engaged, self-starting, thorough
SASA LEKOVIC
Tiriamosios žurnalistikos centro prezidentė
Darbšti, inovatyvi, norinti mokytis
GIEDRIUS SAKALAUSKAS
Pilietinio atsparumo centro Res Publica direktorius
Nuoširdus, orientuotas į tikslą, patikimas
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 lowest form of popular culture – lack of information, misinformation, disinformation and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people’s lives – has overrun real journalism.
Carl Bernstein, American journalist

Disinformation is more than just lying. It’s the denial and twisting of reality in order to present some desired image to the rest of the world.
Will Hurd, American politician, former CIA clandestine officer

Political language — and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists — is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell, British writer

I’m telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true.
Lady Gaga, American singer and songwriter

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
Augustine of Hippo, Christian philosopher of Antiquity

We must reject a culture in which facts themselves are manipulated and even manufactured.
Joe Biden, 46th US president

Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.
Mark Twain, American writer

One can cheat on all the people for sometime. One can cheat on some people all the time. But one cannot cheat on all the people all the time.
Abraham Lincoln, American statesman and 16th president of the US

Since it was discovered that information is a commodity bringing fabulous profits, it has ceased to be subject to the traditional criteria of “true or false”. But it has now begun to report to the laws of market forces with their desire for a monopoly and boosting profits.
Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish publicist and reporter

Our inherent cognitive biases make us ripe for manipulation and exploitation by those who have an agenda to push, especially if they can discredit all other sources of information.
Lee McIntyre, American philosopher, author, educator

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, inventor

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them
Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer

The logic of the media feeds exclusively on cataclysms.
Michel Onfray, French writer and philosopher

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, British writer

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle, 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, 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, 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, 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.