Keep it Real: Truth and Trust in the Media
Keep it Real: Truth and Trust in the Media
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The rise of fake news has become a pressing danger to modern societies. This timely two-day event brings together policymakers, news industry players and other stakeholders to explore concrete initiatives designed to fight the spread of misinformation in Asia.
From deliberate hoaxes created to cause mischief or make money, to media outlets re-circulating unverified or erroneous content, the misinformation ecosystem can take on many different faces. Often, people may not even know they are being exposed to questionable facts.
News media, in cooperation with tech companies, universities, foundations and civil society, can turn this challenge into an opportunity to improve their journalism practices in the social media era, strengthening their credibility and serving their communities better.
The event will feature practical fact-checking projects from Asia and around the world, discuss what internet companies, journalism schools, government agencies and independent organisations are doing to improve media literacy and provide our societies with reliable facts to help lay the foundations of a constructive public debate.
Speakers
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Asia Editor, Storyful, Hong Kong
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Associate Professor, Singapore Management University, School of Law
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Social Media Editor, Agence France Presse (AFP)
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Assistant Archivist, National Archives Singapore
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Editor-in-Chief, The Straits Times & SPH's English/Malay/Tamil Media Group, Singapore
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Editor and Publisher, The Daily Star, Bangladesh
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Lecturer, Journalism & Media Studies Centre, Hong Kong University
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Associate Professor, Coordinator of MSc (International Relations) Programme, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University
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Minister for Home Affairs & Minister for Law
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Founder, Hoaxmap.org and fact-checker at Correctiv
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Director, CrowdTangle Asia Pacific
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Chairman of the Media Literacy Council
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Managing Editor, News Strategy and Operations, Asia, Reuters
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CNN Freelance News Anchor
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Head of Analytics, Customer Experience and Business Operations, Singapore Press Holdings
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CEO and Executive Editor, Rappler, Philippines
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Foreign Editor, The Straits Times
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Strategic Partnerships, Facebook
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Associate Opinion Editor, The Straits Times
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Google News Lab Lead, APAC
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Senior Librarian, National Library
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Political Editor, The Straits Times
Topics
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Various faces of misinformation
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Fact checking initiatives
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Partnerships for improving the digital news ecosystem
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Legal and regulatory framework