As many as 19.72 lakh school students of Class V to X across Kerala have been equipped with basic skills to prevent the spread of fake news through social media and understand the truth behind transacted messages. Announcing the completion of the third phase of the Satyameva Jayathe digital media literacy programme, General Education Minister V.Sivankutty said 5,920 trainers had been deployed to reach out to 9.48 lakh Upper Primary students and 10.24 lakh High Schools students.
The Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education (KITE) has completed the fake news prevention and awareness programme, he said.
The programme rolled out on February 10 during the Covid-19 pandemic, focused on awareness creation through the KITE VICTERS educational channel in the first phase. While the second phase of the programme began in June 2021 , the third phase commenced from August 2022 using a special training module. DGHSS Tanur in Malappuram district had the maximum number of students trained (3,691) in the Government school category while St Marys HSS Pattom in Thiruvananthapuram district topped in the aided school category (7,467 students).
