AFH Announcements

Arabi Facts Hub (AFH) conducted a training workshop for Tunisian journalists on verifying information related to the 2024 Tunisian presidential elections.

Held from July 29 to August 11, 2024. In partnership with BN Tunisia Check, Digital Action, and She checks, the workshop featured expert-led sessions on countering election-related disinformation, methodologies and tools for verifying social media content, investigating coordinated campaigns, fact-checking official statements, and analyzing funded ads.

Link of the training: https://arabifactshub.com/en/training/22

Arabi Facts Hub (AFH), in partnership with Digital Action, held a fact-checking and disinformation detection training for Jordanian journalists from August 25-29, 2024.

Expert-led sessions covered disinformation detection on social media, understanding digital harms, and using tools for data and statement verification. The training enhanced skills in combating disinformation with advanced digital and AI tools.

Link of the training: https://arabifactshub.com/en/training/21

Arabi Facts Hub (AFH), in partnership with The Checker platform, conducted training for journalists in the Kurdistan Region from August 25-29, 2024. on fact-checking and disinformation detection.

Expert trainers guided participants on identifying social media disinformation, understanding digital harms, preemptive fact-checking, and verifying data and ads. The training enhanced skills in using AI and digital tools for fact-checking. Link of the training: https://arabifactshub.com/ar/training/20

Arabi Facts Hub (AFH), in partnership with Digital Action, held a fact-checking and disinformation detection workshop for Algerian journalists from September 15-19, 2024.

Expert trainers covered social media disinformation, political statement verification, digital ad analysis, and creative visualization. The training aimed to boost skills in combating disinformation and producing engaging, story-driven reports for audiences.

Link of the training: https://arabifactshub.com/ar/training/15

Arabi Facts Hub (AFH), in partnership with Digital Action, conducted training for Mauritanian journalists on fact-checking and disinformation detection from September 15-19, 2024.

Expert-led sessions covered social media disinformation, political fact-checking, digital ad analysis, and creative storytelling to engage audiences. The training enhanced participants’ skills in countering disinformation and verifying trending news effectively.

Link of the training: https://arabifactshub.com/ar/training/16

AFH seeks collaboration with  activists, technologists, tech workers or ex-tech workers, or researchers passionate about utilizing technology for social good, combating tech harms, and holding tech companies accountable, Labor rights and ethical practices within the tech industry, Open-source intelligence (OSINT) investigations and data transparency.

We offer the opportunity to join a community of researchers and technology activists, along with financial support to implement projects over a period of 3 to 6 months. Link of collaboration offer: https://arabifactshub.com/en/page/challenge_digital_harms

Arabi Facts Hub (AFH), in partnership with The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP), invites journalists, policy analysts, and academics to contribute to our special project on “Information Disorder in the Arab World”.

That aims to produce insightful analysis pieces and research papers that explore themes such as: COVID-19 disinformation, Political manipulation and polarization, AI bias and misinformation, Climate disinformation, Digital hate speech etc. We accept submissions on a rolling basis. Please send us your pitch in the link:  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeCnnVbpzqZB7lq1eZEylqALY5bwffwHhvjuUZSxrFtDKCJ4A/viewform

Arabi Facts Hub is pleased to invite our fact-checkers partners to register and participate in a series of specialized training sessions. These sessions are designed to enhance your skills in fact-checking and investigative processes. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to access a variety of useful digital tools that will support your efforts in this field.

Registration Form: https://arabifactshub.com/en/training_form

The Arabi Facts Hub (AFH), in collaboration with the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP), is pleased to announce a call for contributors, including journalists, policy analysts, and academics, to write analysis pieces on the topic of Disinformation and Misinformation in the Arab World.

Articles for this special project should be between 2,000-2,500 words long and cover one of the following themes in Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Palestine, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, or Yemen.

Please follow the link to apply.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeCnnVbpzqZB7lq1eZEylqALY5bwffwHhvjuUZSxrFtDKCJ4A/viewform