With the rise of TikTok as a social media and communication platform, video clips measured in seconds rather than minutes are becoming a defacto form of communication for a new generation. How do we p...
Shalini Joshi
Shalini Joshi is a Program Lead for the Asia-Pacific region at Meedan. As a regional lead, Shalini is involved in expanding Meedan's work and its global network in the APAC region. Shalini provides support to fact-checkers, newsrooms and academics involved in addressing and researching misinformation.
Shalini is also the co-founder of Khabar Lahariya, India's only independent, digital news network available to viewers in remote rural areas and small towns. She has been a TruthBuzz Fellow with the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ). The fellowship focused on designing creative ways to counter misinformation. As a specialist at PROTO, ICFJ's partner in India, she led Checkpoint - a research project focused on misinformation in the Indian elections.
Event sponsored by Google News Initiative.
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Fact-checking public health epidemics: an interactive workshop to understand COVID-19
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