In 2024, more than two billion people are expected to cast ballots in more than 50 elections around the world, including in the United States, India, Mexico and the European Union.
Designed by AFP digital investigative journalists and supported by Google News Initiative, AFP’s new open access training is divided into two parts of approximately one hour each. Anyone who completes the entire training receives two certificates.
there part One The course provides tools that allow you to prepare and monitor the elections that will be covered. It also provides concrete examples and useful resources for following election campaigns and verifying the assertions of the various forces at play. there The second part of the training Provides techniques for detecting and verifying false or manipulated content on Election Day, as well as in the weeks following the election.
“Elections are fertile ground for disinformation, and journalists must be particularly vigilant to verify candidates’ statements, among other things,” said Phil Chetwynd, AFP’s media director.
He added: “This new online course offered by Agence France-Presse will help journalists prepare for this year, which is expected to be particularly difficult due to the numerous elections around the world and the massive spread of misinformation on platforms and search engines.”
AFP will unveil this new program in French, English, Spanish and Portuguese during tomorrow’s international media festival Médias en Seine in Paris.
“In 2024, with more than two billion people expected to vote worldwide, it is essential that journalists are able to inform citizens’ choices with factual information,” says Solina Kunal, managing director of Media Partnerships. from Google. “I am happy to expand this collaboration with AFP, which aims to help equip journalists with essential skills to combat disinformation.”
This new training is the twelfth online course organized by AFP’s digital investigative team, the largest in the world, consisting of more than 140 journalists working in 26 languages.
all of the AFP training units Available in four languages: English, French, Spanish and Portuguese.
Since its launch in June 2022, AFP’s digital courses platform has trained more than 15,000 journalists and journalism students, with an overall satisfaction rate of 4.5 out of 5.
AFP courses are accredited by journalism schools around the world, including Sciences Po Paris and CFJ (Centre de Formation de Journalists) in France, the Center for Journalism and Media Studies (HKU) in Hong Kong and PUC University in Brazil.
AFP’s training videos recently won two awards at Luffy Awards 2023, and the online course platform has been pre-selected.
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