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(Reminder) (Updated) COM Emerging Tech For Communication Innovation Series: AFP Fact Check initiatives and multimedia verification in the age of AIby Ms Sophia Xu
(POSTED: 2025-10-22 12:00 AM )
Date & Time: 23 October 2025, 10:50 - 11:50. Venue: M8051, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, please click https://www.cityu.edu.hk/com/Public/AppForms/StI_AppForm.aspx?id=1309 to register Title: AFP fact-check initiates and multimedia verification in the age of AI. Bio: Sophia Xu is the Asia-Pacific Regional Digital Training Manager at AFP Fact Check. She leads AFP's award-winning digital journalism training programme in Asia-Pacific. She joined AFP in 2020 as a regional digital verification editor. She has been a journalist working in digital newsgathering, UGC verification, fact-checking and journalism training since 2012 in various newsrooms globally. She has trained thousands of journalists and students in digital journalism at media conferences, press clubs and universities across Asia.Abstract: Generative AI has greatly shaped our information ecosystem with new tools that allow anyone to generate or alter digital content. While boosting productivity and creative work, it has also made it increasingly challenging to tackle disinformation and verify the authenticity of content shared online. This talk introduces how AFP operates the world's largest fact-checking agency in the digital age, the misinformation trends observed in Asia, and the methodology and techniques its digital investigation team uses to detect and verify AI-generated multimedia content. Participants will be given practical tips and useful resources for sharpening their verification skills.
Category:
Academic Seminar
Department:
Department of Media and Communication (COM)
Venue:
M8051, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre
Start Date:
2025-10-23 10:50
End Date:
2025-10-23 11:50
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