What is citizenship education and what is its role in countering post-truth politics? What is the EU doing to promote citizenship education, and what instruments has it set up to identify and respond to disinformation? Finally, what is the role of social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok in all of this?

In this Video Explainer, Nicoletta Pirozzi, Head of the EU, Politics and Institutions Programme at the Istituto Affari Internazionali, explains why citizen education matters in the ongoing fight against post-truth politics. In a context where new technologies are arising every day, and where those new technologies can easily be exploited to spread harmful disinformation and misinformation, it is increasingly vital that we protect ourselves against this rising tide.