A two-day intensive workshop organized by the International Press Center (IPC) in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, trained over 40 journalists from the South-East and South-South regions of Nigeria. The workshop aimed to equip journalists with the skills and knowledge to effectively utilize the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act and tools for fact-checking to combat false news. Funded by the European Union (EU) and implemented by IPC as lead partner, the workshop also sought to deepen participants’ knowledge of inclusive reportage of gender in politics and election-related discourses. The theme of the workshop was “Post-election Reporting: Using FOI Act & other Investigative Methodologies to Report Democratic Governance & Electoral Accountability Issues.”The Executive Director of IPC, Lanre Arogundade, emphasized the importance of fact-checking as a crucial process in dispelling misinformation and deliberate distortions of information. Arogundade demonstrated the use of different AI tools in fact-checking news stories, videos, audio, and image sources on various social media platforms.

Source: The Guardian February 26, 2024 02:36 UTC