As Europe’s largest organisation of this kind, its remit is to counter the corrosive effect of online disinformation and polarisation on democracy.
They empower young people and teachers to tell fact from fake online and understand how ethical journalism works, while also training teachers to pass this knowledge to students safely and effectively.
Lie Detectors contributes research and findings from its practical work into advisory and policy-making processes in the fields of education and digital rights.
Lie Detectors is non-partisan; its remit universal. Its commitment to take no funding from political parties and none from large online platforms is cited by 77% of teachers as an important or very important factor in their decision to host Lie Detectors. Our trainers comply with ethical guidelines to keep modules age-appropriate, inclusive, accessible and free of political position, as well as in line with the code of the Ethical Journalism Network.
Lie Detectors receives core funding from the Wyss Foundation and is accredited as a charity by the donor-advised fund Myriad. Several of its projects are funded via EU grants. It was conceived and founded in 2017 by award-winning journalist Juliane von Reppert-Bismarck as a response to a growing public crisis of confidence in professional journalism.
Outreach and Communication Associate
As Europe’s largest organisation of this kind, its remit is to counter the corrosive effect of online disinformation and polarisation on democracy.
They empower young people and teachers to tell fact from fake online and understand how ethical journalism works, while also training teachers to pass this knowledge to students safely and effectively.
Lie Detectors contributes research and findings from its practical work into advisory and policy-making processes in the fields of education and digital rights.
Lie Detectors is non-partisan; its remit universal. Its commitment to take no funding from political parties and none from large online platforms is cited by 77% of teachers as an important or very important factor in their decision to host Lie Detectors. Our trainers comply with ethical guidelines to keep modules age-appropriate, inclusive, accessible and free of political position, as well as in line with the code of the Ethical Journalism Network.
Lie Detectors receives core funding from the Wyss Foundation and is accredited as a charity by the donor-advised fund Myriad. Several of its projects are funded via EU grants. It was conceived and founded in 2017 by award-winning journalist Juliane von Reppert-Bismarck as a response to a growing public crisis of confidence in professional journalism.
