THE De La Salle University-Dasmariñas was selected to join Google’s fact-checking project with USD5,000 from the Asian Network of News and Information Educators School Net.

Communications and Journalism Department Chair Isolde Valera said the grant covers training and other needs of the participants of the project.

“This is very advantageous to our DMJ students, especially since DLSU-D is the only university in the Philippines that is offering a specialized course on Digital and Multimedia journalism. This program will also help prepare them as they venture into media practice,” Valera said.

According to the university, the program will kick off with a three-day training from February 24-26 facilitated by Press One editor and DLSU-D faculty member Rommel Estanislao.

Later in the year, the participants will also be trained by Google experts on fact-checking, in addition to the series of trainings and workshops that they will complete under DLSU-D’s competent pool of faculty trainers and resource persons.

Under the program, 18 students from the Digital and Multimedia Journalism and Communication programs were selected via a screening process which took into account their grades, their skills, and their potential as fact checkers.

The Digital and Multimedia Journalism students were also prioritized since the project is in line with their coursework.

By the end of the program on December 2025, participants are expected to be empowered with analytical skills, logical reasoning, and effective content creation through the utilization of digital tools and techniques employed in journalistic fact-checking.

They are also required to produce at least 36 fact checking videos as part of their output.

“We have also allotted a specific timeslot on Green FM for the students for this fact checking project,” Valera said.