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Beyond Fake News

The best of ĢƵ reporting, education and training to help you understand the challenges posed by misinformation and fake news

Russia-Ukraine Conflict

The Challenges of disinformation and verification in Russia and Ukraine

Covid-19

Everything you need to know about "fake news" and coronavirus

Tips for avoiding misinformation

Media education created for young people; relevant to everyone

  • ĢƵ iReporterPlay the role of a journalist covering a breaking news story in the ĢƵ iReporter game.
  • With so much talk of fake news, why is it important to have real, trustworthy news sources?
  • ĢƵ Bitesize: Fact or fakeThe lowdown on different types of fake news, who is behind it and why it helps to take a moment to pause before we post.
  • Young Reporter: Beyond Fake News sectionThe most trusted news sources are accurate and impartial. This means that they always fact-check their stories and verify their sources before publishing.

Media education created for audiences around the world

Latest ĢƵ news about misinformation

ĢƵ initiatives around the world

  • ĢƵ Young Reporter IndiaA media education programme for school students in India launched by ĢƵ News in partnership with Internews and in collaboration with DataLEADS.
  • Beyond 'fake news' 2020: Conference highlightsAn overview of the Beyond 'fake news' and ĢƵ Academy Fusion event held at the Media Cafe, NBH on 4 February 2020.
  • ĢƵ Africa: Kenya and NigeriaKenya and Nigeria have been targeted by purveyors of damaging disinformation during elections and hazardous health hoaxes are commonplace.
  • Debunking fake news in NigeriaThe ĢƵ hosted a Beyond Fake News summit in the capital Abuja to examine ways of combating the threat of misinformation to democracy and health ahead of the last Nigerian elections.
  • Beyond fake news: Indian languages projectVideos depicting false images of child kidnappings went viral across India from 2017 and 2018. So how did the ĢƵ respond?
  • ĢƵ Burmese: Young Reporter workshops in MyanmarHere you can see a ĢƵ Young Reporter workshop in a secondary school in Yangon, Myanmar, exploring the issue of “fake news” in Burmese.
  • ĢƵ Brasil hosted a major conference and piloted Portuguese versions of ĢƵ Young Reporter workshops in schools. They created original content explaining how to avoid sharing false or manipulated content.

In depth

New technology for fighting misinformation

  • The face-mapping technology raising fears about fake newsThis facial mapping technology has been designed to improve television language dubbing, but it also has strong potential for those seeking to deceive.
  • Project Origin: Securing trust in a complex media landscapeIn an age when we often wonder if we can believe what we see, how can we help our audiences ensure the content they consume is trustworthy?
  • CĢƵ - Fake news: The computers fighting fakesComputers are taking on the fight against 'fake news' by learning to detect fake videos... even if they are really believable.
  • To combat Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Fake News, we are now going to need some "good" AI & ML tools developed specifically to detect the "bad" ones, which will augment our existing approaches (Research, Authentication & Literacy)