Curious minds sort facts from fakes
We enable children and teachers to resist online disinformation and polarisation, to understand ethical journalism, and we work with policymakers to effect change.
Our mission
Lie Detectors is an independent, award-winning and journalist-driven non-profit organisation. We work to advance digital media literacy as a key way of countering the corrosive effect of polarisation on democracy. We do this by training and matching professional journalists with thousands of teachers and classrooms. Our work fosters curious and critical thinkers capable of navigating our complex digital information world.
Lie Detectors informs policymaking processes in the fields of education and digital rights, often in an expert advisory capacity, to facilitate long-term societal resilience to polarisation and disinformation.
We believe digital media literacy must be recognised and taught as a core literacy alongside reading, counting and writing, essential to all learning.
What we do
Training newsrooms and journalists
We work with more than 500 professional journalists whom we have trained to provide trusted, authentic and engaging lessons in media literacy for teachers and children aged 10-15. Our training enables newsrooms to engage with local audiences.
Empowering teachers and schoolchildren
Lie Detectors workshops for children are award-winning, playful, inclusive and free of charge. We’ve trained more than 100,000 children across Europe. Teacher-training seminars are hosted by schools, universities, educational authorities, eTwinning, and Unesco.
Researching impact and informing policy
Our on-the-ground insights feed our work with leading researchers, expert networks and formal expert advisory processes. Like the OECD and EU, we call for digital media literacy to be taught by all teachers in all school subjects, and for regulators to defend citizens’ digital rights.
Get involved
Newsrooms & journalists
Join and make a difference
Classroom visits & teacher-training
Request a workshop for your classroom or your teachers
Partners & policymakers
View findings, work with us and adopt best practices
Intergovernmental figures endorse our goals
“Lie Detectors is a powerful answer to disinformation”
Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth (2019-2023)
“Lie Detectors confirms a major tool to fight disinformation is education. I am convinced that in the long term we will not find a better way of empowering people than by increasing levels of digital literacy.”
Vera Jourova, Former European Commission Vice-President for Values and Transparency (2019 – 2024)
“Everyone needs the tools to be a journalist”
Andreas Schleicher, Director for Education and Skills at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
