The Cultural Center at the University of Basrah organized a workshop on shady and wrong information and how to verify data.
The workshop, which was run by the civil activist Nour Hamdi, aimed to educate students about the dangers of the shady media and ways to prevent it.
The workshop included how to investigate false information, including news media shading, credit and bank accounts, and the best ways to conduct research on the Internet and misleading methods.
The director of the center, Dr. Haider Saleh Dasher, stated that the training workshop dealt with an important societal issue represented in the circulation of false information to falsify facts. The target sample in the workshop were students because of the vital role they play in society in spreading culture and awareness of the danger of media misinformation, and that developing the skills and capabilities of this segment contributes in building and correcting the concepts of society, which is the hoped-for goal foe which the center seeks to establish such activities.
