On March 25, 2024 Internews Kosova held a training session with students of University of Mitrovica “Isa Boletini”, who were introduced with the narratives of disinformation and the process of fact-checking.

This training session was held as a part of the project “Strengthening the integrity of the media: Promoting Fact-Checking and combating disinformation in Kosovo”, financed by the European Union, CFI (Media Development Agency).

More specifically, in the first part of the session, the speaker, Dorentina Kastrati – Editor at KALLXO.com explained the historical context of disinformation, media ethics and the criteria that helps identify credible and professional media outlets. In addition, Kastrati presented the findings of the report “The Story of our Lies”, which highlight the influence of disinformation from Russia and China in Kosovo.

Whereas, in the second part of this session she covered the methodologies and the process of fact-checking by presenting fact-checking tools such as Krypometer (Truth-o-meter), the fact-checking platform of KALLXO.com.

This training was attended by 18 students of which 17 were women, who engaged in the training by asking questions on fact-checking, and shared their experience in dealing with fake news and disinformation on a daily basis. Present in this training was also Mr. Islam Qerimi Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Mitrovica “Isa Boletini”.