Valentyna Pestushko (Fedorchuk), a 2nd year student of Kherson State University majoring in journalism, conducted a fact-checking training for Kherson residents at the educational training center "SVOE".

How not to fall for fakes?

Valentyna Pestushko (Fedorchuk), a 2nd year student of Kherson State University majoring in Journalism, conducted a training on fact-checking for Kherson residents at the educational training center "SVOE".

The author's program included theoretical and practical parts.

During two hours, the participants learned

- What to look for before trusting a news story and sharing it;

- how to distinguish between a fake and a real video;

- what are "patriotic" fakes and how dangerous they are;

- how to determine which country the administrators of a Facebook group are from and which sources can be trusted.

The participants applied their newly acquired skills to practical cases. Together with older participants, they also set up messengers to protect their accounts from fraudsters

Today, the enemy is waging a large-scale information war, in which our weapon is media literacy!