RTDNA/Google Election Fact-Checking Tools and Best Practices

In this RTDNA/Google News Initiative training, we’ll explore ways to fight back against misinformation and disinformation during election coverage. We’ll use tools such as Google Fact-Check Explorer to track fact-checked images and stories. We’ll use reverse image search, Google Pinpoint and other Google tools to check election claims. We’ll break down doctored video and audio with WatchFramebyFrame and Deepfake-o-meter. We’ll also look at the innovative Rolliapp.com to track disinformation spreaders on social channels.

Participants get a handout with links to tools and exercise materials you can take to your newsroom.

Prior to the training, set up a free Rolliapp.com “press pass” account as it takes a couple of days to get approved.  Use the passcode JOURNOAI

Trainer

Mike Reilley has been a lecturer in data and digital journalism at the University of Illinois Chicago for the past eight years and is a digital tools trainer in the Google News Initiative training program. He also owns Penny Press Digital, LLC, a digital consulting company.

Mike has trained more than 14,000 journalists, students and teachers in digital tools since 2016, speaking at conferences, journalism schools and in newsrooms in 42 states. He has done more than 425 trainings in the Google program and dozens more for other clients such as Gannett.

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