Seminar Stresses Over Understanding 'fake News' Repercussions
Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir) Published August 19, 2022 | 07:54 PM
The subtle distinction between 'fake news,' misinformation and disinformation, and its related repercussions should be correctly understood amid the recent outbreak of information warfare, Media Specialist Masroor Gillani said in a special talk on the "Phenomenon of Fake News" held under the auspices of Information Service Academy
ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 19th Aug, 2022 ) :The subtle distinction between 'fake news,' misinformation and disinformation, and its related repercussions should be correctly understood amid the recent outbreak of information warfare, Media Specialist Masroor Gillani said in a special talk on the "Phenomenon of Fake News" held under the auspices of Information Service academy.
The pertinent seminar attracted a large number of participants from different media outlets, other training institutions as well as government officials here on Friday.
Gillani ascribed the phenomenon of fake news to psychological, financial and political motives. He said that all modern and well-equipped news agencies and media outlets over the years developed a mechanism of fact checking in order to ensure dissemination of factual news.
He named Snopes, FactCheck.org, FactChecker, weekly blog from the Washington Post, PolitiFact.com from the St. Petersburg Times and PunditFact as the most advanced fact checking organizations.
He added that AFP, AP, Reuters, BBC and other wire services regularly publish Fact Check reports.
Similarly, Pakistani newspapers, such as 'The News', 'Dawn', 'Express Tribune', 'Daily Pakistan' and some private television channels published fact check reports or have a fact check section on their websites.
These reports, he said could be studied by trainee officers to enhance their knowledge on evaluation of news item.
The one-hour talk was followed by a 30-minutes question hour session during which Masroor elaborated on the digital tools of fact checking of reports and photo materials on social media.
At the end of the session, the DG ISA presented souvenirs to the guest speaker and participants from other training institutions.
Senior officials from various attached departments of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting attended the special talk.
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