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Arabi Facts Hub
Launches First Edition of
"Egyptian Fact-Checking Day"
in Collaboration with European Universities in Egypt |
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📚 In This Special Edition of Our Newsletter:
📌 Arabi Facts Hub (AFH) in cooperation with European Universities in Egypt (EUE) launches the first edition of "Egyptian Fact-Checking Day"
🎉 Arabi Facts Hub becomes a member of the Global Alliance for Partnerships on Media and Information Literacy (GAPMIL) under UNESCO
🌐 Our Reports: Multiple digital campaigns covered incitement against refugees in Egypt, amplification of interaction with a Ramadan series, in addition to a digital spat between Iraq and Kuwait over Khawr Abdullah, and the promotion of Maryam Rajavi's plan for a post-Islamic Republic era.
🤝 Partnerships and Cooperation: AFH prioritized key collaborations to boost research, training, and digital tool development. This included participation in the Palestine Digital Media Forum 2026 and establishing a joint work protocol with the "Infotimes" platform.📌
Trainings: An advanced session within the "Generation Z" project on verifying images and videos using AI tools. 🔎 Practical Tools: NewsScope for analyzing news coverage, extracting news data from Google News, and building downloadable analytical reports. |
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🚀📢 Arabi Facts Hub is pleased to announce our joining of the UNESCO Media and Information Literacy Alliance – MIL. This step enhances the our presence within international networks concerned with developing fact-checking skills and promoting media and information literacy. This comes as part of our efforts to expand cooperation with global initiatives that support confronting disinformation and spreading reliable knowledge, while continuing to launch events and activities targeting journalists, researchers, and those interested in fact-checking in the Arab world. |
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| | 📌 The first "Egyptian Verification Day" is set to take place in Cairo on March 29th, hosted at the European Universities in Egypt (EUE) campus. This event is a collaborative launch between Arabi Facts Hub and the EUE. The event aims to enhance the efforts of the information verification community, with participation from journalists, fact-checkers, academics, and media students interested in digital media issues and information verification. 🤝 It will include panel discussions and practical workshops focusing on information verification in the age of Artificial Intelligence, with a discussion of the role of AI technologies in supporting verification processes, the challenges associated with fact-checking in the Egyptian context, and the exchange of experiences among journalists, media, and technology specialists. 📍 Registration is now available here |
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📌 Digital activity surged in late February 2026, coinciding with the escalating Iraq-Kuwait dispute over Khawr Abdullah. Hashtags related to the conflict became a platform for mutual recrimination between Iraqi and Kuwaiti accounts, a development closely monitored by the report. The analysis concludes that the political escalation extended into the digital sphere through reciprocal hashtag campaigns and mutual mobilization rhetoric, which contributed to amplifying the interaction surrounding the maritime dispute between the two countries. |
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| | | 📌 The report monitors a digital campaign launched concurrently with the US-Israeli strikes on Iran at the end of February 2026, using the hashtag #OurChoiceMaryamRajavi to promote a Ten Point Plan put forward by Iranian opposition figure Maryam Rajavi for Iran post the Islamic Republic. The campaign relied on unverified accounts, some of which are active outside Iran, which contributed to amplifying the political promotion of Rajavi and the National Council of Resistance of Iran, with some accounts supporting the military strikes on Iran. |
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| | | 📌 In continuation of the broad campaigns against refugees, our latest report monitored an intensive digital campaign that was launched between January 18 and February 23, 2026, using the hashtags #ترحيل_السوريين_مطلب_أمني (Deporting Syrians is a Security Demand) and #ترحيل_السوريين_من_مصر (Deporting Syrians from Egypt), as part of a wider wave calling for the deportation of refugees. The analysis concludes that the targeting of Syrians came within a more comprehensive mobilization framework against refugees in general, with a noticeable overlap in the hashtags used with previous campaigns that targeted Sudanese and Africans. |
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| | | 📌 Our report on the Ramadan series "Men of the Shadows: Operation Serpent's Head," which recounts the capture of the Muslim Brotherhood leader Mahmoud Ezzat in Cairo in 2020 after years in hiding, monitors a wide wave of interaction that accompanied the promotion of the work via the hashtags #رجال_الظل (Men of the Shadows) and #رأس_الأفعى (Serpent's Head).
The analysis also indicates the existence of a network of interacting and coordinated accounts, including commercial and anonymous accounts, that contributed to amplifying the interaction and linking the series' promotion to a political discourse that goes beyond drama. |
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📌 On March 31st at 4:00 PM Palestine time, Maha Salah El-Din, Communications Manager and Data Editor at AFH, will lead a session titled "Exploring and Analyzing Data Through AI Tools." This session, which will review the most prominent AI tools that assist journalists and researchers in data analysis without requiring coding, is part of the tenth edition of the Palestine Digital Media Forum 2026, organized by the Arab Center for Social Media Advancement.
📍 The full agenda for the forum can be viewed here and the registration link is here.🔗 |
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Ahmed Gamal, journalist at Arabi Facts Hub and a certified trainer in information verification and artificial intelligence, presented a training session titled "Information Verification: Tools for Verifying Images and Videos," in collaboration with "Al-Fanar Media." The session targeted the second batch of participants in the "Generation Z" project and focused on the practical aspects of verifying visual content, the importance of systematic doubt, examining details, and analyzing context, in addition to reviewing reverse search tools and image analysis techniques. |
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| | | | | 🤝 Arabi Facts Hub has signed a cooperation protocol with Infotimes to support research efforts and the production of knowledge related to information disorder, as well as to develop training programs to build the capacities of journalists and researchers, and to work on designing digital tools based on data analysis to monitor informational phenomena on digital platforms. The cooperation also includes organizing joint knowledge events and activities to enhance the exchange of professional experiences between the two sides.
📢 The first joint initiatives and activities will be announced soon.
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| | 🔎 Have you ever wondered how the press covers a particular topic? A smart tool developed by Infotimes Academy gives you a special "radar" to scan Google News. All you have to do is enter your keywords, and hundreds of news articles will be transformed into charts that analyze: Who is the author? What does the sentiment look like (positive or negative)? And what are the most repeated topics? Finally, you get your report ready in (PDF) format or raw data for in-depth research. |
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🌙🤝 In a spirit of warm cooperation and community, AFH hosted a Ramadan dinner, or "Suhoor." This gathering brought together partners, trainers, and collaborators, fostering a friendly atmosphere that truly reflected our united efforts. It was a unique opportunity for attendees to engage in rich discussions and direct communication, strengthening our partnerships and reinforcing the bonds of shared work in a truly affectionate Ramadan setting. |
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🌍 Arabi Facts Hub continues to support journalists and researchers in monitoring the truth in a rapidly changing digital world.
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