A proposito di Public Education Forum
Because when you know, you know.
Welcome to the Public Education Forum (Forum 2.0)
Because once you see how manipulation works, you start seeing it everywhere.
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The Public Education Forum is an independent civic-education project about disinformation, propaganda, influence operations, and the wider manipulation of public perception.
We are not trying to build another fact-checking outlet. Fact-checking has its place, but the problem is larger than individual false claims.
Manipulation works through repetition, identity, emotion, humor, outrage, symbols, social pressure, and the slow erosion of trust.
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The Forum exists to make that machinery easier to see.
Across Europe, researchers, journalists, institutions, and monitoring groups are already doing important work on disinformation and foreign influence.
But much of that knowledge stays trapped in reports, policy language, expert circles, and specialist events.
Most people never see it in a form they can use.
That is the gap the Forum is trying to close.
We strive to translate complex research and real-world examples into public-facing writing, visual material, explainers, cultural work, and educational tools.
The aim here is simple: help more people understand how influence works before they are already inside it.
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The Forum intends to bring together three kinds of work.
Artists to help turn abstract ideas into images, symbols, objects, and cultural language people can remember.
Educators to help make difficult subjects clear without flattening them.
Producers to help turn ideas into things people can actually read, share, print, use, and build on.
Together, this makes the Forum idea less like a traditional institution and more like a civic workshop: serious about the threat, but flexible in how it responds.
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Support helps keep this work going.
Contributions help sustain the research, writing, editing, design, publishing, hosting, and gradual development of educational materials.
Over time, they can also help with translation, local versions, workshops, printed material, and tools others can adapt.
There are no paywalls here. No special-access memberships. No donor-only knowledge.
Support simply helps keep the work independent, steady, and able to grow without being shaped by political or institutional pressure.
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If this work helps you think more clearly about the world you live in, you are welcome to support it.
PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/publiceducationforum
And now, you know.
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