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Announcing the three finalists for the Thomson Foundation Young Journalist Award 2026. Congratulations to  Aaron Atsahyel (@AtsahyelAaron 🇳🇬), Humberto Basilio (@HumbertoBasilio 🇲🇽) and William Kamau (@MoigeWilliam 🇰🇪).

Winner to be announced at the @FPALondon awards on 30th November. Read more: thomsonfoundation.org/latest/young-j…

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Recognising manipulated content doesn’t always stop people sharing it. Sometimes it reinforces a political belief or a sense of identity.
Drawing on Hungary, Sudan and Uganda, Thomson’s new report challenges assumptions about how to counter disinformation and explores why responses need to reflect local realities.
Read: thomsonfoundation.org/media/hhyfrzj3…

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@ForumAthens.
📷: Image created with the help of AI

What does it take to make societies more resilient to disinformation?
More than 50 people joined our session at @ForumAthens to consider this question. Independent journalism, people’s ability to assess information critically, digital platform design and effective governance need to work together to reduce the impact of false and manipulated information.

Thank you to our speakers, our moderator Gary Mundy and everyone who joined the discussion.

We’ll share a full report next week.

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📷 : Aris Messinis / Athens Democracy Forum

Trusted journalism questions, investigates and explains so the public can understand what matters.

This World News Day, Thomson is supporting the call to #ChooseTrustedJournalism.
Our free Journalism Now course Rethinking Disinformation helps you understand why falsehoods take hold and how psychology, prebunking and practical verification techniques can help stop them spreading.

Start learning: journalismnow.org/course/rethink…

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🏆 #YJA2026: Meet the final four journalists on this year’s shortlist.
Their reporting investigates online child exploitation, human trafficking, controversial scientific research and the exploitation of women workers. 🧵👇

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