The United Nation Growth Program (UNDP) in Beirut launched in partnership with the Dawaer basis a coaching program to fight pretend information and hate speech in Lebanon.
Fifty younger journalists participated on this intense journey to turn out to be capable of detect pretend information over social media platforms and examine its origin with the intention to appropriate it. The trainees have been taught skilled instruments to make use of of their day by day lives and careers.
Lately, 5 of the trainees got here up with a fact-checking community referred to as “Sawab” which suggests “the correct (information)”. The staff would surf the web for native unfold pretend information and work on verifying the supply and publishing the correct model of the story.
Combining consciousness of faux information and hate speech, the remainder of the journalists labored with director and author Hisham Khaddaj on a full script for an interactive theater play.
The play, named Uncle Shawki Lounge, touches on how folks in Lebanon are likely to unfold information whether or not it’s proper and verified or not.
The play is now displaying in a number of Lebanese areas from north to south.
The interactive theater play Uncle Shawki Lounge has made its strategy to Monot theater in Ashrafieh, and it will likely be proven subsequent Tuesday, September twentieth at 7:00 P.M. Discover the invitation under:
The next is the primary teaser of the marketing campaign Rely To Ten, urging folks to depend to 10 earlier than sharing any information they obtain.
