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A new educational video series by media literacy network FactShala will offer people practical skills and useful tools to sort facts from fiction online.To be launched in multiple languages, the 'FactShala Ambassador Programme' video series will collaborate with prominent journalists in India and offer easy tips and tools to enabling users in assessing the credibility of information online and reach trustworthy sources. For the initiative, FactShala, run by DataLEADS, has partnered with MediaWise of the Poynter Institute…

Tech giant Google expanded its News Initiative Training Network to include five new languages: Punjabi, Assamese, Gujarati, Odia, and Malayalam.Google has also launched the Fact-Check Academy in partnership with DataLeads, the tech giant said in a statement.About a hundred new trainers have been inducted to help newsrooms and journalists build capacity to tackle climate misinformation and verify misleading data and claims that include false numbers, it added.The Google News Initiative India Training Network was launched…