‘VERIFY FACTS, PIXES’
LU students learn to spot ‘fake news’
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Lucknow:02.12.2021
Students of Lucknow University were on Wednesday taught various techniques to identify fake news. They were told by teachers to forward only authentic news and information on social media platforms.
The techniques were taught to students during a workshop on ‘fake news’ held as part of cyber awareness campaign in the zoology department.
Head of journalism and
mass communication department Prof Mukul Srivastava informed students how they can identify fake news and morphed photographs on social media. Apart from fact checking, people should also use their ‘common sense’ to identify fake news and verify facts before forwarding anything on social media, he said.
Head of the zoology department Prof Sudhir Kumar, who was the chief guest on the occasion, said that the virtual world is as important as the real world.
After politics and history, the target of fake news and trolls are science subjects in which pseudosciences are projected as science and perception as history, he added.
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