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BBC Academy Live presents BBC Verify’s Filter the Fakes

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TIME & LOCATION

Tuesday 11 November, 5:00 pm

End Time: 6:00 pm

Upstairs Theatre

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BBC Academy Live presents BBC Verify’s Filter the Fakes

From deepfakes to viral rumours, disinformation is spreading faster than ever. BBC Verify’s Filter the Fakes session pulls back the curtain on how journalists uncover the truth — and shows you how to apply the same techniques to sharpen your own news judgement and critical thinking.  Join BBC Verify’s Senior Journalist Paul Brown, for this masterclass to help empower yourself with the tools to filter the fakes and think like a journalist.

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Paul Brown

Senior journalist and international trainer, BBC News
Paul has been a journalist with the BBC for over 20 years. He currently works as a senior journalist with BBC Verify, focussing mainly on international news, particularly conflict. Prior to that he worked as a researcher and analyst for BBC Monitoring, specialising in Africa, the Middle East and the extremist groups

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Mark Simpson

BBC News Correspondent
Mark Simpson is an award-winning TV and Radio broadcaster, and is currently Community Correspondent for BBC News NI. He started his career in the 1990s and worked for all three Belfast daily newspapers: the Belfast Telegraph, Irish News and News Letter. He was appointed political correspondent at the BBC in 1998, the same year as the Good Friday Agreement. He went on to work for BBC network news as Ireland Correspondent and North of England Correspondent, before returning to Belfast. He is now a TV and Radio correspondent, and radio programme presenter. He has interviewed every British Prime Minister and Taoiseach who has held office in the past 30 years. Away from work, he is a year-round open water swimmer.