Mechanisms of Verification of The Foundation (Technology For Peace) of Fake Sports News - An Analytical Study
Keywords:
Sports News, Tech for Peace, Fake News, Media Disinformation, Media VerificationAbstract
In light of the technological development that began to accelerate in the world, which led to the spread of fake or false news due to the ease of its circulation in the midst of this technological revolution that included social media in general from Facebook to Instagram to TikTok and others, some centers began to appear that took it upon themselves to limit the phenomenon of the spread of this fake news and try to verify it and reduce its spread. On this basis, a number of institutions took it upon themselves to refute this news and try to broadcast it to the public after clarifying its truth. Given the great importance of Arab sports media in this aspect and the interest of Arab society in sports, the (Technology for Peace) Foundation had a prominent role in this field and was one of the institutions that confronted fake news. On this basis, it allocated (sports) as an aspect of its classifications in verifying fake sports news that is easy to circulate among the sports audience who are passionately interested in sports and all its aspects without paying attention to the truth of the news, as there are certain parties that have a purpose in spreading such news and for multiple goals and purposes. Therefore, the following question came regarding this study, which is (What are the mechanisms of the Technology for Peace Foundation to verify fake sports news?)
The researcher used the survey method, where he used the content analysis form through which he analyzed the research sample that included (8) news, then the research community consisting of (77) news, then the questions came, who is the Technology for Peace Foundation and how does it work to verify the news? Then what did it rely on and what are the tools that it used in verification? And how does the organization work and what does it rely on?
Through research in this aspect, I reached a number of results, which are:
1. Technology for Peace is an Iraqi institution that verifies fake news, as it paid attention to sports news because of its great importance among the Arab sports community in general, and this verification comes through relying on international institutions and republishing the news obtained from them, as well as relying on a large team in this aspect.
2. Technology for Peace relies primarily on its website and the tools it uses to verify the news, in addition to relying on news agencies to verify the accuracy of the news.
3. There is a large number of volunteers for the Technology for Peace Foundation inside and outside Iraq, consisting of 265 members geographically distributed inside and outside Iraq, who contribute significantly and directly to carrying out tasks that would verify news from its sources.
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