Fight fakes, disinformation

Your WBA is offering members free access to a Poynter educational session titled “Fighting Fakes and Truth Decay.” 

The session is online on Jan. 4 at 11 a.m. CT. You can learn more and sign up here.

Here’s what you will learn:

• Where does information come from and who is behind it? 
• Why do people spread disinformation? 
• How can you detect fake photos? 
• What is metadata and what will it tell you? 
• What does every journalist need to understand about algorithms? 
• See the newest tools fakers use to alter video and audio. 
• How to use polysearch tools to get to the root of an images’ origin.