2021: Channeling The Crowd To Fight Misinfo

Lockdowns during the pandemic have fostered communities curious about fake news, with citizens learning to verify content on their own, becoming home detectives and local ambassadors against misinformation.

Speakers:

Raisa Serafica, Rappler

Santi Astuti, Mafinido

Edward Gomez, Between the Lines

Supinya Klangnarong, Cofact Thailand

Melody Hsieh, Fake News Cleaner

Dr. Geetika Vashishata, Manipal University Karnataka - FactShala

2021: Lessons from ANNIE LAB

Journalism students from the University of Hong Kong share what they’ve learned from ANNIE LAB, a fact-checking project that simulates a newsroom environment.

Speakers:

Joshua Lee, Hong Kong University

Ananta Agarwal, Hong Kong University

Gigi Tang, Hong Kong University

2021: Building Teenagers' Media Immunity

How to deliver digital literacy to teenagers, based on Jung’s non-fiction book “Media Literacy for AI-friendly Teens,” inspired by observations of his own daughter.

Speaker:

Jae-Min Jung, KAIST