Media Azi: Al Jazeera Channel, ‘Interested’ in the Elections from Chisinau. How Do We Spot Fake News?

A local site recently broadcast a report, and claims to have taken it over from Al Jazeera Channel. The report is about a candidate for the position mayor of Chisinau municipality who supposedly said he would offer the capital of the Republic of Moldova for 50 years to Arab citizens, if he becomes a mayor. Journalists from StopFals investigated the issue and found that the video was faked.

Who orchestrates such misinformations? What are the main indicators of fake news? Are there any digital tools the journalists and media consumers may use to identify such materials? What does the Center for Combating Cyber Crimes of the National Investigation Inspectorate say in such cases?

The journalist Anastasia Nani speaks about this during the talk show ‘Media Azi’ with her guest – Lilia Zaharia, reporter at StopFals portal.

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“Media Azi” broadcast is weekly produced by the Independent Journalism Center. It is intended to disclose the problems faced at present by the journalists of the domestic media and to identify solutions to hem. The broadcast may be viewed on the websites www.moldova-azi.md, www.media-azi.md and mediacritica.md, as well as on the Youtube channel of the Independent Journalism Center. 
The broadcast was produced with the financial support of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, provided by the means of the Embassy of Sweden in Chisinau.