Fact Checking

[caption id="attachment_301477" align="alignnone" width="320"] Youtube features Election Information Panel[/caption] Furthermore, Google News Initiative (GNI) also supports fact-checking initiatives and protecting journalists covering the elections. Google News Lab lead for APAC Irene Liu said that the tech giant has invested in #FactsFirstPH initiative. Google also tapped the University of the Philippines along with tsek.ph—a fact-checking project led by UP—to develop an election workshop series for journalists already set on March 4 and 5. Google has shared fact-checking tools and tips to help verify vaccine information online. To learn more on how to fact-check vaccine information, you may visit the FYT YouTube channel and watch the free “#FYTCOVID19: Fighting vaccine misinformation” webinar to hear from experts from the health sector, the academe, esteemed journalists, and Google. It is a fact-checking initiative of the independent media outfit FYT supported by Google Philippines. According to Google, all students from APAC countries are invited to join a live fact-checking battle for the chance to compete against top students across Asia. In teams of two or three people, the members will be challenged with intense quizzes putting their fact-checking skills to the test. Read more in our articles including "Google, YouTube pushes efforts vs misinformation, timely for PH 2022 elections" and "Google shares fact-checking tools, tips for verifying vaccine information online".