Fighting against misinformation, disinformation and mal-information through fact checking become important challenge in rural Bangladesh.

The goal of the initiative is Empowering Community People Promoting Access to Reliable and Timely Information through community radio broadcasting.

The objective was to disseminate reliable and timely information to fight against the issues through Community Radio based on fact-checking using the techniques of information verification before program broadcast.

The intervention accelerated ICT applications for benefitting community people through effective public access to reliable and timely information through ICT and media for keeping lives & livelihood easy.
The Community Radio stations with their new technologies and ideas are fighting against the issues. In the age of fast-growing information technology, it is necessary to adopt the techniques of checking genuine facts and learn best practices.

The ability of the community radio broadcasters is enhanced through the interventions of fact-checking. Community radio stations deepened their critical understanding of how community media can better serve for fighting against the issue and expanded media environment, and the risks of ‘information disorder’ to the country. Understood the factors that drive trust in community media and how much trust can be sustained or rebuilt. Be able to explain to someone else why community radios are working on the issue

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• Bangladesh

• Remote and rural communities
• . Target beneficiary group(s) * 1000 Community Radio Broadcasters of community radio, and 9 million listeners of 20 community radio coverage area of 17 districts of Bangladesh

The project is possible to replicate for all print and electronic media across the country and world. The interventions of fact-checking will contribute to the media of all over the world for benefitting community people in all aspects of life through effective public access to reliable and timely information through ICT and media for fighting against infodemic (Misinformation, disinformation, and mal-information) and keeping lives & livelihood easy.

Community radio has always inspired marginalized people especially community people to empower them through creating space and sensitized duty bearers through effective public access to reliable and timely information through ICT. The initiative can be replicated in Bangladesh and another part of the world.

The ability of the community radio is enhanced through the interventions of fact-checking thus they can take the initiative to cope with the practice and respective media houses will adopt the concept through the media. The community radio stations have been incorporated the issues of fact-checking with their regular program and content development and trying to fight against, misinformation, disinformation, and mal-information and avoid them. How this topic has been discussed and shaped by Broadcasters, the news media, and academics. The broadcaster understands how harm and falsity are ways of thinking about ‘information disorder’.

The Broadcasters learned critically about an example of disinformation, breaking down who initiated and created it, what the message looked like, and how it might have been interpreted by audiences. Explain to someone else why it is important that we think about this issue carefully. Increased likelihood of disinformation and misinformation going viral with distribution amplified by ‘trust networks’ and emotional reactions.

Critically assess the structural causes and the broad consequences of the news media’s actions in reporting and distributing misinformation. Understand and critique the role of technology and the ‘new gatekeepers’ in enabling the viral distribution of misinformation and disinformation presented as news. Identify emerging best practices within the news industry for catching and combatting misinformation, disinformation, and mal-information.

Through this intervention, WSIS values in Bangladesh are strongly adhered to and promoted extensively. This is done through providing effective public access to reliable and timely information through ICT and media for fighting against misinformation, disinformation, and mal-information and keeping lives & livelihood easy for community people in all aspects of life.