22 Feb Media Literacy Masterclass
Faqcheck Lab, together with Penang Institute and U.S. Embassy, present to you the Media Literacy Masterclass to help you navigate challenges in countering disinformation....
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20 Jan TechCamp Malaysia: An Oral History
TechCamp Malaysia, held in five sessions between October 6-16, 2020, was the first TechCamp hosted in a fully online setting. The event’s focus was combatting disinformation, an issue that’s become central to the post-pandemic world.
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20 Jan Virtual TechCamp Brings Together Journalists and Experts
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought many in-person events to a halt, including most of the TechCamps planned for 2020. However, TechCamp organizers haven’t stopped thinking of ways to bring programming to community leaders around the globe.
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20 Jan TechCamp Malaysia goes virtual
PENANG Institute and the United States Embassy in Kuala Lumpur have launched the TechCamp Malaysia: Building Trust and Media Literacy in the Digital Age, today with an aim to counter disinformation in the present digital era.
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20 Jan Covid-19 Exclusives: Penang Institute Holds TechCamp 2020 to Raise Media Literacy in the Digital Age
To build trust and media literacy in the digital age, Penang Institute organised and hosted TechCamp Malaysia 2020 over the course of two weeks in October 2020. The issue is especially pertinent to Malaysia now, considering the pandemic and the political instability. TechCamp, a series...
20 Jan Malaysian, Philippine teachers zoom in on Media and Information Literacy
KUALA LUMPUR: The Media and Information Literacy for Malaysia-Philippines Network (MIL for MY-PH Network) organised a three-day mini TechCamp virtual workshop from March 29 to 31 for secondary school teachers and teacher educators from across Malaysia and the Philippines on how to integrate Media and...
20 Jan Why we need to look at TikTok to understand Southeast Asia’s Gen Z
As the world’s most popular social media platform for Generation Z with more than 1 billion global active users (June 2019, South China Morning Post/SCMP) and more than 240 million users in Southeast Asia, according to a TikTok press release on Sept. 30, 2021, the...
20 Jan ‘Mission impossible?’: tracking political misinformation and disinformation on TikTok
TikTok is one of the top five social media platforms in the world this year. In Southeast Asia last year, 198 million people, about 29% of the region’s population, used TikTok. It is not an exaggeration to say the platform has become one of, if...
17 Jan TechCamp Malaysia 2022: Smart Journalism, Healthy Democracy
This year, TechCamp Malaysia 2022 aims to build the capacity of journalists in applying digital investigative skills and using data tools to counter disinformation and produce quality content, particularly in the area of political and electoral reporting. Participants will undergo training by industry experts, work...
17 Jan TechCamp Malaysia 2020
Building Trust and Media Literacy in the Digital Age
TechCamp Malaysia was held to train and equip journalists as well as social media, community, and government influencers with the tools to inculcate media literacy skills among the wider public. Throughout the two-week virtual program, participants worked with technologists and international experts to develop tech...