1,200 participants to join the information investigators tram in Iraq

Baghdad-INA 

The Rights Center for Supporting Freedom of Expression intends to launch new training courses in 5 governorates with the aim of adding 1,200 students, journalists, activists and opinion leaders to the field of information checking and combating misinformation on social media within the next two months.

The Rights Center stated in a statement, received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), that "through intensive courses for two consecutive days in the governorates of Baghdad, Karbala, Babil, Diyala and Anbar, and over a period of two consecutive months, the Center intends to add these categories to the team of fighters of misinformation and to investigate what is published of data and news." and information on the public space, especially on social networking sites.
The center stated, "During the next two months, through workshops that will be run by graduates of courses in the mentioned governorates, 1,200 people will participate in the Rights Center project to investigate news, follow up on misleading and fake news and expose it through social media."
He added: "The center concluded an intensive training course in Baghdad, which included preparing trainers and training them on digital mechanisms to combat misinformation, attended by participants from all the mentioned governorates, who will take it upon themselves to lead the training courses, each according to his governorate, after they were contracted by the Rights Center To support freedom of expression, the task of each member is to train 120 people from the five mentioned governorates.