Don’t know whether the content you’re seeing online is real? Or maybe it's AI generated content? As 2024 is the biggest election year in history, countering online mis/disinformation has become an increasingly urgent and pressing concern. Increasing capabilities of Generative AI is also resulting in rampant misuse of the tech towards the spread of mis/disinformation. In this episode of the CCG Tech Podcast, Aishwarya and Fawaz speak to Karen Rebelo about countering mis/disinformation online through fact-checking. They discuss the weaponisation of mis/disinformation, the misconceptions about fact-checking, the fact-checking process, and the challenges to fact-checking, particularly with the rise of AI-generated content.

Karen Rebelo is a journalist, fact-checker and Deputy Editor at BOOM Live⁠, a fact-checking organisation based in Mumbai.

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Hosts: Aishwarya Giridhar, Fawaz Shaheen

Editor: Gopika P

Fact Checker: Sukriti

This podcast is created by the ⁠Centre for Communication Governance⁠ at NLUD. Reach out for any queries / suggestions at [email protected] 

(The opinions expressed in the episode are personal to the speaker. The University does not subscribe to the views expressed in the episode and does not take any responsibility for the same.)