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Under Press House sponsorship: The Social Media Club conducts an initiative on the topic of "Publish correctly"

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Gaza - Press House

On Tuesday, 07 June 2022, the social media club, implemented a media initiative on the topic of "Publish correctly", under Press House – Palestine sponsorship, within the Swiss-Norwegian Project activities for 2022.

The initiative was held by conducting a training day in Gaza, on “Fake News and Social Media Publishing” with participation of Journalist Sami Abu Salem and Mahmoud Al-Tawil, the Coordinator of the Social Media Club, in the presence of fifteen trainees and social media activists.

Abu Salem discussed the concept of misleading news, when it is published and in what forms, as well as the tools used to verify images, videos, and misleading news, as well as the risks associated with it. He also provided training on how to verify the truth in images, videos, and misleading news and how to combat it.

For his part, Al-Tawil presented strategies for using social networking sites, identifying platforms by type of content, and producing digital content and publishing it through social networking sites, where he divided the audience into groups in order to produce materials (article, report, or video) for publication on social networking sites.

The initiative included a number of interventions by the trainees, which focused in its entirety on ways to detect misleading news as well as photos and videos and methods of knowing the truth and sources of news, photos and videos spread.

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