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About: Abhishek Parashar is working as an Associate Editor at Jagran New Media and is associated with Vishvas News as a Fact-Checker. He has around 9 years of experience in digital media. His total experience in journalism is more than 12 years. He has previously worked with Press Trust of India (PTI-Bhasha), Business Standard (Hindi), The Economic Times, Catch News (Rajsthan Patrika), and News Nation Digital. Abhishek is a certified Google News Initiative (GNI) fact-checking and news verification trainer. He has been working as a trainer at ‘Sack ke Sathi’ which is the media literacy campaign against fake news/misinformation. He has expertise in data analysis and has spent half of his career as a business journalist.

Qualification: Postgraduate in Journalism and Mass Communication from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), New Delhi. Graduate in Journalism and Mass Communication from Delhi University.


Certification: •Training of Trainers - Decoding the Misinformation and Disinformation for Senior Citizens, MICA.
•Certificate of Completion - Deepfake Basics, Great Learning Academy
•Certificate of Completion - Leadership and Management, Great Learning Academy
•Certificate of Completion - Verifying Climate Claims, AFP
•Certificate of Completion - Fact-Checking Fundamentals with IFCN
•Certificate of Completion - Tackling disinformation during elections, AFP
•Introduction to Digital Journalism By Reuters.
•Pursuing Financial Markets from Yale.
•CrowdTangle For Instagram: How To Use City To Make Your IG Pop and First Draft Training
•Vaccine Insight Flexible Learning Course, First Draft
•Attended several other workshops on fact-checking and MIL organised by IFCN, GNI, Facebook, Crowdtangle, and ICFJ.
•Certificate of Completion - Tackling disinformation during elections - Part 1, AFP
•GNI PollCheck’s Digital Investigation Accelerator, GNI
•Completed the Google News Initiative India Training Network recertification program 2023, GNI
•He has also completed the Data Journalism, Verification, Election, and Introduction to Machine Learning courses in the Google News Training Centre.
•JournalismAI, Polis
•Attended Exploring the Impact of AI in Journalism, Svran Apeejay Journalism Foundation (SAJF).

correction:

1: Sept 16, 2019
Vishvas News received a claim on a story which was done on Sept 14 by Vishvas News Team member (Emp ID: PN0041)). Below is the story URL
https://www.vishvasnews.com/politics/fact-check-fake-tweet-of-congress-claiming-about-unemployment-in-auto-sector-being-viral-on-social-media/
Vishvas News received a mail from the admin of ‘Fir Ek Bar Modi Sarkar’ Facebook page claiming the rating given on its post by Vishvas News was incorrect. The author of the story didn’t get a required quote from Youth Congress. As per the IFCN guidelines and the SOP, Vishvas News made necessary correction in the story and changed the rating of the Facebook post from False to True.

2: December 18, 2020
The story done by team member (Employee ID PN0043) was updated on 18th Dec 2020 to remove an unnecessary paragraph which was not required in the story.
https://www.vishvasnews.com/politics/fact-check-post-claiming-about-change-in-name-of-mughal-garden-is-fake-2/
https://www.vishvasnews.com/english/politics/fact-check-govt-did-not-impose-tax-on-school-books-viral-claim-is-fake/
https://www.vishvasnews.com/english/politics/https-www-vishvasnews-com-english-politics-fact-check-post-claiming-about-renaming-mughal-garden-is-fake/

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