Google announces USD 1 million grant to promote news literacy in India
- Technology giant Google has announced USD 1 million grant to promote news literacy among Indians to avoid spreading of misinformation.
- The money will be given to Internews, a global non-profit organisation, which will select a team of 250 journalists, fact checkers, academics and NGO workers for the project.
- A curriculum will be developed by a team of global and local experts, who will roll out the project in seven Indian languages.
- The local leaders will then roll out the training to new internet users in non-metro cities in India, enabling them to better navigate the internet and assess the information they find.
- The announcement is a part of Google’s USD 10 million commitment worldwide to media literacy.