Journalists and students can apply for this free online training in Spanish.
Periodismo Cide is organizing the workshop "Fake news: tools for detection and analysis" on Oct. 15.
Participants will learn how to find and counter false information through tools that detect disinformation hubs.
Applicants should have basic notions of R programming language.
Spots are limited. The deadline is Oct. 12.
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Students, journalists and other communicators interested in fact-checking can participate in this course.
Faculdade Casper Líber offers a course on fact-checking on Oct. 17 and 24.
Topics include the basics of fact-checking; fake news, post-truth and disinformation; debunking and fact-checking; reporting and in current journalism; what is possible to check; the fact-checking step by step; search tools, spreadsheets and access to information law; what is between the true and the false; how to pack the content; selection of checkable phrases; search for references; veracity classification; and formatting the content.The instructor is journalist Taís Seibt, professor at Unisinos and co-founder of the Filtro, a fact-checking agency
Registration is open, but spots are limited. The cost is BRL320; there are discounts for current students, alumni, faculty and staff.
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