As part of a one-day National Conference on ‘Countering Disinformation for Telugu Television Reporters’, Osmania University and the US Consulate-General Hyderabad will host a conference session on July 9 in the CFRD building on the university campus.
Earlier this year, a 90-hour training project began, which led to the conference. David Moyer, Public Diplomacy Officer, US Consul-General, Hyderabad, will inaugurate the day-long conference and deliver the keynote address.
Nivedita Niranjan Kumar, News Editor (South) for BOOMLive, and Syed Nazakat, senior journalist and editor-in-chief of Dataleads, will also address the participants. The program will conclude with a panel discussion and video presentation of the participants.
Nearly half of the participants are women from mainstream television channels, YouTubers, and freelancers across the two Telugu states and districts.
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Community of fact-checkers
Participants had formed HydFactCheck22, which is a community of fact-checkers who are undergoing training from Google-certified fact-check trainers on how to debunk misinformation on social and news media.
As a result of a rise in misinformation/disinformation across media platforms and a lack of opportunities for Telugu journalists to receive such training, the program was devised. In the third quarter, the project team invited international fact-checkers to participate and lend their expertise to the participants.
With funding from the US Consul-General, Hyderabad, the Department of Journalism is implementing a first-of-its-kind training program. Infrastructural facilities and logistics support are provided by the journalism department.
Google itself plans to also launch a fact-check academy and hire 100 new trainers to assist newsrooms and journalists in developing the capacity to combat climate misinformation and verify misleading data and claims such as false numbers. The company intends to do so in collaboration with DataLeads.
Through this, selected candidates will participate in a three-day fully-funded residency and train-the-trainer program.
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