cameroon gce O level June 2024 computer science 3
cameroon gce O level June 2024 computer science 3
Do all the tasks (Task I, Task II and Task III) specified in this question paper.
Task 1 ( 15 marks)
Social media verification: assessing sources and visual content
Social media has changed journalism practice. Real–time audience engagement has given rise to crowdsourcing content,
and even reporting tasks like verification can now be outsourced to the audience
essence, a discipline of verification 167, methods of verifying content and sources require constant updating to reflect the
impacts of fast–changing digital technologies, online behaviours, and newsgathering practices. For example, during the
Arab Spring, the concept of ‘open verification’ – a process of public, collaborative, real–time verification – began to
surface. But this process remains contentious because of the risks associated with misinformation going viral in the
course of attempting to verify information step–by–step in a public forum (i.e. a reporter sharing unverified information
with a view to crowdsourcing the verification process)168.
Today, eyewitness accounts and visual content are amongst the most important and compelling tools a journalist or news
publisher can draw on to tell a high impact story. In a breaking news scenario, speed is a critical factor in verifying
information from social media 169.
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