He also touched upon Data Journalism and Verification while highlighting that 'developing a data frame of mind and being able to collect and question data in a disciplined way, making sense of discrepancies, and finding the underlying patterns and outliers that are important.' He said the best tools for visual investigations for videos or moving images are InVID, YouTube Inbuilt tools,, and VLC Player. The other steps he highlighted included reverse image searches such as google image, Yandex Reverse Search, Tineye Reverse Search, and Google lens. He further dwelt on the various steps of visual investigations for still images, the first of which include keywords and looking for clues. The training was held with the objective of supporting journalists and media educators across India against misinformation.ĭr Moalemba highlighted about the conceptual definition of Misinformation, Disinformation and Mal-information that are usually generated with the distinct motivations of political, financial, psychological and social/religious reasons. A Google News Initiative (GNI)-DataLeads Training on the topic, 'Fact Checking and Verification Tools for Journalists' was held at the Kohima Press Club Office (KPC) on October 23 with Dr Moalemba, GNI India Training Network Trainer as the Resource Speaker.
