The threat posed by fake news is global and everyone is threatened by disinformation. It is the need of the hour for every person to be equipped with media knowledge.

This was said today in Prizren, during the training with students and representatives of secondary schools, on the topic "Misinformation, misinformation and malicious information", within the project "Media education for teachers and students of the Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities".

Through this training, the students had the opportunity to develop different activities related to this topic, and also show different situations that have been influenced by the misinformation they have encountered in the media. Based on the way this training was developed, the students were very satisfied with the lessons they received, the experiences they shared, and according to them such trainings are always welcome.

Shyret Hoxhaj from the Roma community, a 12th grade student at the "Ymer Prizreni" school in Prizren, has emphasized that such trainings are important to be informed about misinformation.

"This training is very sensitizing for informing about media misinformation, where we as a community have negligence from the media where they do not play any role in informing us how we should control the media. These trainings have a key role for us, as we receive information properly to control the media... Also, these activities in the role of the media should be increased as much as possible, not only in the Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities, but also in the majority Albanian communities, but also those with a minority, Turkish and Bosnian" , said Hoxhaj.

Sead Berisha from the Roma community, an 11th grade student at the "11 Marsi" school in Prizren, said that considering that schools do not inform about these topics, such trainings are necessary for young people.

"Such disinformation trainings are important, especially for teenagers, since schools don't teach about these... We need these activities for young people, since we spend a lot of time on social networks and not on television," Berisha said. .

Zemrije Berisha from the Ashkali community, an 11th grade student at the "11 Marsi" school in Prizren, emphasized that they are often neglected by such trainings as communities, while saying that it is important to increase the number of these trainings. According to her, these trainings help young people to become aware of how to verify fake news.

"These trainings for me as a community are very important, since as a community we are neglected by these trainings and I think that these should be held more often...so that we have more information about fake news", said Berisha.

Naxhije Hyseni, lecturer at the Competence Center "11 Marsi", in Prizren, said that these trainings are always welcome for everyone. Until he added that it is necessary to increase the number of such trainings.

"This training was welcome, starting from what we are in the spectrum of everyday life, what surrounds us and what happens in our globe... It was important to have as much training as possible to raise awareness... about the fake news that is spreading , maybe every minute of our lives", said Hyseni.

Otherwise, this seven-month project, which aims to raise the awareness of communities against disinformation, as well as strengthen the role of civil society activists from the Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities, has been organized by the KosovaPress News Agency, together with the non-governmental organization "Young Community Leaders Center" (YCLC).

The Media Education Against Disinformation project for teachers, students and civil society activists from the Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities is supported by the Embassy of the United States of America in Pristina.