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Senior Planet OATS webinar: ‘Fact-Checking and Digital Verification’

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Wednesday, March 31, 2021
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

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Register here for this free webinar from AARP/Senior Planet OATS initiative.

Join the News Literacy Project and OATS Senior Planet for a free webinar to learn how to fact-check content and use existing tools to verify information before you share it. The discussion will take place on Wednesday, March 31 at 1pm ET / 10am PT.

In this webinar, we’ll share tips to help you understand the motivations of bad actors who push misleading, inaccurate and false information, and we’ll help you build skills to identify it and stop its spread. We’ll also teach you the basics of fact-checking so that you can protect yourself from falling for misinformation.

RSVP here to join us for this informative webinar.

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