Students fight disinformation at fall 2024 What the Hackathon
Students participate in What the Hackathon, an interactive event about information disorder held by the Cox Institute for Journalism Innovation, Management & Leadership at the University of Georgia. Photo by Kyser Lough.
University of Georgia, Grady College of Journalism
University of Georgia students interacted with expanded and new Google tools for finding disinformation and won prizes, including Cox Institute medals, at the fall 2024 What the Hackathon.
The event was sponsored by the What the Hack podcast, hosted by Adam Levin, and offered students guidance from a Google News Initiative trainer on leveraging these tools to improve fact-checking.
Student teams competed against each other to identify real and fake online content using Google fact-checking tools. Google News Initiative trainer Debora Wenger, who serves as associate dean and professor in the School of Journalism and New Media at the University of Mississippi, provided tips about verifying the authenticity and accuracy of online media to fight misinformation in newsrooms and beyond.
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