Arshaluys Barseghyan is a journalist based in Armenia. She primarily focuses on fact-checking journalism and open source intelligence (OSINT) investigations, and on disinformation and information manipulations. The topics she covers include conflict, national politics, health, and social and gender issues. Arshaluys is also a close observer of the media environment of Armenia, and is an advocate of fact-checking and media literacy in Armenia.
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Lena, Elen, Ani, Yelena and Arina
During emotionally draining situations, people can easily fall for fake information. The presenters of this topic will talk about misleading media coverage in wartime and focus on the first widely covered war, the Vietnam war.
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Ani, Aleksandr, Gevorg and Artyom
Mass media has had an enormous impact on public attention and attitudes towards COVID-19 and later on its vaccines. The presenters of the topic will speak about the spread of misinformation regarding this phenomena and introduce a guideline to follow to avoid fake news.
