Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 20: With an aim to support budding journalists and media educators to counter the spread of misinformation, a workshop organised by Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Jammu was held here today.
Dr. Aditya Kumar Shukla, Google News Initiative (GNI) India Training Network Training Assistance and Professor of Media Studies at Amity University, Madhya Pradesh, were the resource person of the workshop.
Dr. Vinit Utpal, Assistant Professor, IIMC Jammu was the guest of honour during the workshop.
The event highlighted the importance of fact-checking in today’s digital age, where misinformation can significantly impact public opinion and decision-making.
Dr Garima Gupta, Head of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, emphasized the need of such a workshop to better equip the media students to deal with the present crisis of misinformation, disinformation in the age of fake news.
She appreciated the resource person for sharing “red flags” to spot misinformation and combat deep fakes with the use of apt tools and techniques to verify misinformation.
During the workshop, participants were given hands-on training to verify the authenticity of photos, videos, and content by using tools such as Google Lens, Yandex, TinEye, and InVid.
Also, they were told to be careful of the social media handles that do not always provide credible information.
Participants were urged to “think of intent” of the posts or messages circulated through social media and especially WhatsApp and beware of forwarded messages.
They were advised to search for the original source, check the language and verify statistics and data.
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