Learning to see through the lies with media literacy


Raising awareness: BijakTular is aimed at teaching students to identify misinformation, disinformation and fabricated news. — 360info

MISINFORMATION and media literacy has become a touchstone subject for many nations and Malaysia is no different.

So much so, the fact-checking community in Malaysia is evolving, with artificial intelligence and old-fashioned human beings at the coalface of verifying what's real and what's not on social media and other platforms.

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