A brand new instructional video collection by media literacy community FactShala will provide individuals sensible expertise and helpful instruments to type info from fiction on-line.
To be launched in a number of languages, the ‘FactShala Ambassador Programme’ video collection will collaborate with distinguished journalists in India and provide straightforward ideas and instruments to enabling customers in assessing the credibility of knowledge on-line and attain reliable sources.
For the initiative, FactShala, run by DataLEADS, has partnered with MediaWise of the Poynter Institute with assist from Google Information.
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“The launch of this mission is a good step ahead in accelerating the expansion of media literacy in India. Each Indian ought to have entry to prime quality and reliable data that equips them with competences to assume critically concerning the data they eat, create and share on a regular basis,” stated Syed Nazakat, founder and ceo, DataLEADS.
Ritu Kapur, managing director and co-founder of The Quint, will function the primary English-language ambassador for the programme and can educate viewers with the abilities and strategies that they will use when navigating the knowledge ecosystem.
The matters for the video collection will embrace detecting deceptive knowledge visualisations, verifying manipulated photographs and deep fakes, using important pondering strategies by way of lateral studying, and figuring out indicators of misinformation, knowledgeable the orgainsers.
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