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AFP holds online digital investigation workshop with indigenous journalists in Brazil
AFP held a digital investigation workshop on Monday 10 June with Brazilian indigenous journalism and communication networks.
AFP held a digital investigation workshop on Monday 10 June with Brazilian indigenous journalism and communication networks including Abrinjor (Articulação Brasileira de Indígenas Jornalistas) and Coiab (Coordenação das Organizações Indígenas da Amazônia Brasileira). Around 30 indigenous journalists representing over 20 different peoples joined the online session.
The training focused on the work of AFP’s award-winning global digital investigation team and the Digital Courses platform, sharing strategies and freely available tools for tackling disinformation.
The session was led by Yael Berman, who is currently based in Paris and previously worked as a fact-checking reporter in Rio de Janeiro. Through case studies and exercises, she explained how to use search operators for more efficient online searches, how to find the origin of a video or an image with reverse image searches and how archiving tools work.
“We, indigenous peoples, have been facing disinformation in a very intense context in the past years”, said Tarisson Nawa, one of the webinar’s participants and Abrinjor’s co-founder. “Having access to those tools via AFP is a possibility of empowering our communication, one that is carried out by us indigenous people, fighting disinformation about ourselves. In that way, the training was extremely relevant”, he added.
