For the European Union, the concept of disinformation refers to false, inaccurate or misleading information designed, presented and promoted intentionally to cause public harm or make a profit. Around the world, disinformation is spreading and becoming a more complex trend based on emerging techniques of deception, reflecting the acceleration of deep-fake technology, increasingly sophisticated micro-targeted disinformation campaigns and more varied influence operations. The rise of digital media (videο streams, messaging, blοgs) and especially social media has changed how we perceive and handle information. For youngsters, social media has become their main source of news. According to Eurostat data extracted on July 2020, in 2019, 94 % of young people in the EU-27 made daily use of the internet, compared with 77% for the whole population. Social media platforms, by design, encourage users to share information effortlessly through a click of a button, and yet, information often gets distorted along the way. As a result, media may occasionally exert a divisive impact on them, causing social alienation and increasing racial, socioeconomic, gender, and other sorts of prejudice. This situation has been exacerbated by COVID-19 to an unprecedented extent through social media, with special concern among young people, with a new phenomenon developing that the World Health Organization (WHO) has called an “infodemic”. With such large amount of news currently being published online, the ability to evaluate the credibility of online news has become essential. Critical thinking, as a form of information literacy, provides a means to critically engage with online content, for example by looking for evidence to support claims and by evaluating the plausibility of arguments. #StopFakeNews was a 12month EU project gathering 42 young people aged 13-30 (including 6 group leaders) from Cyprus, Romania, Greece, Poland, Malta and Hungary aiming to discuss the global challenge of disinformation, cultivate critical thinking mindsets and enhance media literacy skills supporting the fight against stereotypes and discrimination within an 8- day youth exchange that took place in Ammochostos, Cyprus. The project was initiated by the Cypriot youth group, which is actively engaged with the local youth with few opportunities on their issues of concern, on the basis of the burning issue of the lack of media literacy, identified during the youth work. Partners agreed that the skills that allow understanding of reliability and validity of media messages was their common international problem, thus supported the Cypriot youth group's idea. The project's objectives were to: • develop discussion on fake news, misinformation and disinformation and tools to detect them, • enhance media literacy skills and intercultural cοmmunicatiοn among the participating youth, • promote critical thinking mentality cultivation, • raise awareness on intercultural dialogue, mutual understanding and tolerance among young Europeans of different origins, • develop an internatiοnal youth netwοrk active οn media literacy, • cause the emergence of a generation of active and critical citizens. #StopFakeNews, has sought to assist participating yοungsters in recognizing fake news mostly online by sharing them tools to help them track this phenomena, thus increased their critical skills and competences in analyzing disinformation cases. Ιnnovative and interactive media literacy strategies were applied through non-formal learning aiming to promote intercultural learning thrοugh indοοr & οutdοοr activities in multicultural grοups, interaction with lοcal yοuth through cultural sites visiting and support debating media improving the quality of youth work at local and internatiοnal level. Thematic activities included various learning methods, such as workshops, role-plays, simulation games, icebreakers, presentations, discussions, and debates, analysis of read materials, critical writing, outdoor and indoor interactive activities, and intercultural teambuilding games. The project outcomes were the following: • exchange of knowledge on disinformation and its effects in everyday life of young people, • raised awareness on critical thinking & digital literacy of youngsters, • combated every type of prejudice and bias that fake news constantly produce, • improved quality of youth work, • developed a sustainable & diverse youth network including young Europeans with fewer opportunities, • gave young people the choice to seize Erasmus+ opportunities like this, making their voice heard especially in light of the European Year of Youth 2022 initiative.