Show & Tell: School Net fact-checking projects in Indonesia and Philippines
Three schools will present what their achievements and concerns are so far
Back in December last year, we announced that ANNIE partnered with 14 universities and high schools in seven Asian countries to establish campus-based, student-driven fact-checking projects.
In this week’s ANNIE Connect on Friday, three schools, two from Indonesia and one from the Philippines, will discuss how their projects are going—achievements, challenges, students’ reactions, and other related reflections and concerns.
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Presenters
School: Universitas Airlangga in Indonesia
Presenter: Dr. Irfan Wahyudi
Brief description: Through a course called "Digital Journalism and Big Data," students are asked to build online platforms that engage in fact-check activities. They are called Fact Meter and Fakta Pemilu (election fact). In early March 2024, ten students were recruited for the project. They went through a training session conducted by journalists and instructors from the TEMPO media. The team's current activities are managing content for the Factmeter platform.
School: Universitas Multimedia Nusantara (UMN) in Indonesia
Presenter: Samiaji Bintang Nusantara, lecturer of Digital Fact Checking and Head of the Journalism Department at UMN.
Brief description: The journalism department at UMN offers digital fact-checking as an elective course for students to face the challenges of information disorder. This year, the course focuses on the general election since voters are receiving information that is intertwined with misinformation. Twenty-five students were involved in this project.
School: De La Salle University-Dasmariñas in the Philippines
Presenter: Isolde Eder-Valera
Brief description: Students are engaged in fact-checking through the campus radio Green FM. They went through a training session in February.