Amid the flood of information on the Internet, an event was held to share know-how for media in various countries to detect misinformation and realize fair reporting.
The event, titled "Trust in News," was held by the BBC, the UK's public broadcaster, in London and other cities on the 30th, and 14 journalists from 30 countries introduced their daily efforts.
In it, a reporter for France's AFP news agency said that in response to the killing of residents near the Ukrainian capital Kyiv last year, the crew recorded the status and location of each person's body and tried to overturn Russia's claim that it was a fabrication. He clarified that he used satellite photos to identify that it had been left in the same place.
A reporter for the BBC's Persian broadcaster explained that while reporting activities in Iran were banned, the BBC analyzed more than 2,2 videos taken by citizens of the scarf protests in various parts of the country to find out the facts and report on them, while trying not to lose neutrality by only conveying the arguments of the participants.
In addition, from NHK, the news bureau's Junya Yabuuchi desk introduced a specialized team that analyzes information on SNS 24 hours a day, and found an unsubstantiated post that spread along with the video on Twitter during the massive earthquake that occurred in Turkey in February, stating that a tsunami and a nuclear power plant accident occurred there. He explained that he had also alerted the media around the world.
Marie Herry of the BBC, who organised the event, said: "Fake news is now so sophisticated and massive that finding the truth is a major challenge not only for journalists, but for citizens around the world."