Twitter and AFP announce collaboration to elevate credible information in Spanish

Through this new collaboration, AFP will support Spanish content on Twitter in Latin America, Spain, and the US.
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Through this new collaboration, AFP will support Spanish content on Twitter in Latin America, Spain, and the US.
The second AFP photo auction raised nearly 200,000 euros, including nearly 15,000 euros for the first three NFTs offered by the agency.
Over the past year, the EFCSN project has brought together nearly 50 fact-checking organisations from across Europe to write a Code of professional standards that organisations will need to meet in order to join the network.
The series of photographs illustrates the catastrophic floods in Europe in July 2021 that killed 190 people in Europe, 160 of them in Germany.
Chiba, who has worked at AFP for over a decade and is based in Nairobi, won the top prize at the 2020 World Press Photo awards and was recently named The Guardian's "Agency Photographer of the Year 2021".
The training was held both online and on-site at a Nairobi hotel on February 7 and 8, under the guidance of four AFP journalists spread across Nairobi, Lagos, and Paris.
The free course, called Digital Investigation Techniques, teaches reporters and journalism students the tools and skills to verify online information while protecting themselves and their sources.
The bite-sized modules cover fact-checking basics and advanced methods, from verifying images and videos to finding witnesses on social media.
The project, co-ordinated by Charles University, also aims to boost public media literacy in the region and develop artificial intelligence tools to detect misinformation.