Report format: 5 minutes 
Presented by: Catalina Marchant de Abreu and Derek Thomson (En), Alexandre Capron and Anthony Saint-Léger (Fr) and Sahar Hassan (Ar)

Saturday 25 March at 10.45 am*

For France's Press and Media in Schools Week 2023, in which France Médias Monde is an official partner, the France 24’s Observers team has produced a new annual edition of Truth or Fake. The program, which disentangles fact from fiction, will be provided in three languages: French, English and Arabic.

In addition to being broadcast on France 24's TV channels and social media accounts, the 2023 edition will be used in French schools in partnership with CLEMI, France's  Education Centre for Media and Information, to raise awareness among students and teachers of techniques to debunk fake news and propaganda throughout specific examples.

In 2023, Truth or Fake consists of 4 educational videos based on decoded examples using an interactive touch screen.

Contents

Spotting photos created by an AI system

How to detect deepfakes?

Videogames and reality: how to tell the difference?

Finding the original context of a video on TikTok

Note: Every day, France 24's Observers team publishes image checks in the team's "Debunked" section, exposing fake news and distorted images on social media.

Every evening, the false images spotted by France 24’s Observers team are presented on air Catalina Marchant de Abreu (at 8.45 pm* and 10.20 pm* in English) and Anthony Saint-Léger (at 9.20 pm* and 10.20 pm* in French). Truth or Fake is also available on the Observers digital platforms: website, Twitter and Instagram.

France Médias Monde’s channels (RFI, France 24 and Monte Carlo Doualiya) provide news based on facts, broadcast worldwide in French and 20 other languages. Thanks to France 24’s Observers team, the channels also have long-standing expertise in the fight against fake news and are mobilised all year long to offer shows that allow viewers and listeners to identify and deconstruct all forms of information manipulation.

France Médias Monde’s network of fact-checking journalists work to share this mission on a different format (television, radio and digital platforms) and on major themes (Africa, Europe, education, youth, politics, international information...). This internal organisation focused on the fight against disinformation ensures consistency and complementarity of offers and allows the group to contribute to national and international initiatives that mobilise major media outlets together.

France Médias Monde participates in "Vrai ou Fake", a platform on franceinfo website, the French public national broadcaster, to brings together various programs in the French public broadcasting system. The group is also an active member of International Fact-Checking Network, and in early 2022, joined the media coalition "Objéctif désinfox", led by AFP and Google to fight against disinformation during the French presidential election. 

*Paris Time