{"id":16703,"date":"2024-11-26T17:37:35","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T16:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/26\/online-influencers-need-urgent-fact-checking-training-warns-unesco\/"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:37:35","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T16:37:35","slug":"online-influencers-need-urgent-fact-checking-training-warns-unesco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/26\/online-influencers-need-urgent-fact-checking-training-warns-unesco\/","title":{"rendered":"Online influencers need \u2018urgent\u2019 fact-checking training, warns Unesco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Research shows six in 10 social media content creators do not verify accuracy of information before posting it<\/p>\n<p>Social media influencers need \u201curgent\u201d help to check their facts before they broadcast to their followers, in order to reduce the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/nov\/07\/85-of-people-worry-about-online-disinformation-global-survey-finds\">spread of misinformation online<\/a>, Unesco has warned.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by the UN\u2019s educational, scientific and cultural organisation, two-thirds of content creators fail to check the accuracy of their material, making them and their followers vulnerable to misinformation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2024\/nov\/26\/online-influencers-need-urgent-fact-checking-training-warns-unesco\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/3f372bae06df85eca62a110c53e08944f049394a\/0_201_3500_2100\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=aeb67c50833b546ddef84c6babdb82d4\" title=\"Online influencers need \u2018urgent\u2019 fact-checking training, warns Unesco\" \/>Research shows six in 10 social media content creators do not verify accuracy of information before posting it<br \/>\nSocial media influencers need \u201curgent\u201d help to check their facts before they broadcast to their followers, in order to reduce the spread of misinformation online, Unesco has warned.<br \/>\nAccording to a report by the UN\u2019s educational, scientific and cultural organisation, two-thirds of content creators fail to check the accuracy of their material, making them and their followers vulnerable to misinformation. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research shows six in 10 social media content creators do not verify accuracy of information before posting it Social media influencers need \u201curgent\u201d help to check their facts before they broadcast to their followers, in order to reduce the spread of misinformation online, Unesco has warned. According to a report by the UN\u2019s educational, scientific &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/26\/online-influencers-need-urgent-fact-checking-training-warns-unesco\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Online influencers need \u2018urgent\u2019 fact-checking training, warns Unesco<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16703"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}