The Google India has expanded its News Initiative Training Network to include five new languages, namely, Punjabi, Assamese, Gujarati, Odia and Malayalam.
The tech giant has inducted nearly 100 new trainers to help newsrooms and journalists in building the capacity to tackle climate misinformation and verify misleading data and claims that include false numbers.
Launched in 2018, the Google News Initiative India Training Network along with the DataLeads has over 39,000 journalists, media educators, fact checkers and journalism students from over 2,300 newsrooms and colleges in at least 10 languages.
The network supports journalists and newsrooms in learning the digital skills they need to verify and tackle online misinformation.
The Google India is also inviting journalists, a journalism professor and fact checkers for its Fact-Check Academy to help the media tackle misinformation by learning verification skills and techniques from experts. In a three-day train-the-trainer boot camp scheduled in August, selected candidates will improve their skills in verification and training.