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How to Combat HEALTH Misinformation

with AFP’s Rachel Blundy

Fact Checking in a pandemic

With the coronavirus pandemic came an avalanche of new falsehoods. COVID-19 has created a public health issue and a challenge to journalists and the media.

Let’s hear from Rachel Blundy how we can combat Health Misinformation

Rachel Blundy is a Senior Fact Check Editor who helps lead Agence France-Presse’s Asia Pacific Digital Verification team from Hong Kong. The team debunks misinformation circulating in 14 countries and territories. Rachel has expertise in verifying user-generated content (UGC) on social media after working for social media intelligence agency Storyful. Originally from London, she spent more than five years in reporting and digital production roles on newspapers in the UK, before moving to Hong Kong to work for South China Morning Post in late 2015.

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https://abu-org-my.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6Z15-xq3QfmB3dT1ry4GBw

22^nd July, 2021 at 1300HRS Malaysian Time