Russia-Ukraine Conflict
The Challenges of disinformation and verification in Russia and Ukraine
How to spot false posts from UkraineRussia's invasion of Ukraine has triggered a wave of falsehoods on social media and the airwaves. In a new Radio 4 podcast series, War on Truth, our specialist reporter follows the stories of people caught up by misinformation - and gives some tips about how to avoid it.
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Newsround: How to spot misleading stories online about Ukraine crisisMedia education created for young people; relevant to everyone. ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Specialist Disinformation Reporter Marianna Spring has some tips on how to spot what's true and what's false.
How we verify social media posts from the war in UkraineHow do you tell if a photo or video posted online is real or fake? Specialist reporter Kay Devin demonstrates how the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ's Disinformation team check and verify content shared online about the war in Ukraine.
Covid-19
Everything you need to know about "fake news" and coronavirus
The seven types of people who start and spread viral misinformationConspiracy theories and speculation about coronavirus is rife on social media. But who's behind these rumours?
Here's how you can stop bad information from going viralCoronavirus misinformation is flooding the internet.
How can you stop the spread of misinformation?Zeinab Badawi explains how we can all slow the spread of harmful falsehoods online.
How bad information goes viralThere's a huge amount of misleading information circulating online about coronavirus from dodgy health tips to speculation about government plans.
Misinformation and verificationThe WHO has described the tidal wave of fake coronavirus claims as an 'infodemicβ.
Covid-19 in Africa: Fighting fake news about coronavirusTo combat what the WHO has called an "infodemic" around Covid-19, ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ News Africa has launched a searchable library of fact-checks debunking popular myths and misinformation about coronavirus in Africa.
Tips for avoiding misinformation
Verification tools: Top tipsMembers of the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ's anti-disinformation team offer insider tips on how to verify photos and videos online.
How to spot 'fake news' onlineHow can you be sure that what you're seeing on social media is genuine?
Verification tools: Exposing truths and detecting fakesExperts from Google News Lab and ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Africa Eye share insights and tips on how to verify content.
Sorting fact from fiction: Useful tips and toolsJournalist Erica Brown explains the techniques that ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ journalists use to verify content on social media.
Coronavirus: Verifying facts and challenging misinformationA webinar with experts from ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Monitoring, ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Reality Check and ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Trending on how to tackle viral misinformation.
Fighting fake newsFrom propaganda to hoaxes, βfake newsβ has become a catch-all term for a range of false or misleading information spread online. How should journalists respond?
How you can fight 'fake news'World Service cyber reporter and fake news expert Joe Tidy discusses the perils of misinformation and how colleagues can educate themselves.
Media education created for young people; relevant to everyone
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ iReporterPlay the role of a journalist covering a breaking news story in the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ iReporter game.
With so much talk of fake news, why is it important to have real, trustworthy news sources?
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Bitesize: Fact or fakeThe lowdown on different types of fake news, who is behind it and why it helps to take a moment to pause before we post.
Young Reporter: Beyond Fake News sectionThe most trusted news sources are accurate and impartial. This means that they always fact-check their stories and verify their sources before publishing.
Media education created for audiences around the world
Learning English playlist - Fake News: Fact and FictionEverybody knows the expression 'fake news', but what does it really mean? In this series, we break down the language around this topic and give tips to help you protect yourself from misinformation.
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Burmese Young Reporter videosThese Burmese language videos address the challenges of misinformation in the region.
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Africa Young Reporter videosThese three Young Reporter films explain what fake news is, how to recognise it and who you can trust in the world of media. These were made especially for schools in Kenya and Nigeria.
What is fake news? (Hindi)What are the motives behind generating fake news?
What and who to trust? (Hindi)What are some of the signs to not trust a person or organisation sending you information?
Identifying fake news (Hindi)How to identify fake news and do some quick checks before sharing news and information.
Manipulating language and video (Brasil)Discover how deepfake manipulation works in different languages.
A super hero gives top tips to avoid sharing misinformation on WhatsApp to Indian language audiences.
Latest ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ news about misinformation
Fake newsWhatβs real? Whatβs distortion?
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ initiatives around the world
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Young Reporter IndiaA media education programme for school students in India launched by ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ News in partnership with Internews and in collaboration with DataLEADS.
Beyond 'fake news' 2020: Conference highlightsAn overview of the Beyond 'fake news' and ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Academy Fusion event held at the Media Cafe, NBH on 4 February 2020.
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Africa: Kenya and NigeriaKenya and Nigeria have been targeted by purveyors of damaging disinformation during elections and hazardous health hoaxes are commonplace.
Debunking fake news in NigeriaThe ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ hosted a Beyond Fake News summit in the capital Abuja to examine ways of combating the threat of misinformation to democracy and health ahead of the last Nigerian elections.
Beyond fake news: Indian languages projectVideos depicting false images of child kidnappings went viral across India from 2017 and 2018. So how did the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ respond?
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Burmese: Young Reporter workshops in MyanmarHere you can see a ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Young Reporter workshop in a secondary school in Yangon, Myanmar, exploring the issue of βfake newsβ in Burmese.
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Brasil hosted a major conference and piloted Portuguese versions of ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Young Reporter workshops in schools. They created original content explaining how to avoid sharing false or manipulated content.
In depth
A specialist service within ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ News that enables organisations to understand the world through its media.
A number of governments have adopted measures ranging from legislative and legal action to media literacy and public awareness campaigns in efforts to fight the spread of disinformation.
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ research shows nationalism is driving the spread of fake newsExtensive ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ research project carried out in India, Kenya, and Nigeria shows nationalism is driving the spread of fake news.
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Ideas: Truth, trust and 'fake news'Disinformation, 'fake news', trolling - sometimes it's hard to tell what's real any more.
The world of misinformation and fake news is full of confusing vocabularyThe ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ has put together some widely-used definitions that will help you understand the differences between various forms of misleading information, with descriptions of how this content is spread, and the type of people who do it.
How President Trump took 'fake news' into the mainstreamWhat began as a way to describe misinformation was quickly diverted into a propaganda tool.
New technology for fighting misinformation
The face-mapping technology raising fears about fake newsThis facial mapping technology has been designed to improve television language dubbing, but it also has strong potential for those seeking to deceive.
Project Origin: Securing trust in a complex media landscapeIn an age when we often wonder if we can believe what we see, how can we help our audiences ensure the content they consume is trustworthy?
CΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ - Fake news: The computers fighting fakesComputers are taking on the fight against 'fake news' by learning to detect fake videos... even if they are really believable.
To combat Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Fake News, we are now going to need some "good" AI & ML tools developed specifically to detect the "bad" ones, which will augment our existing approaches (Research, Authentication & Literacy)