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1 million dollars grant to promote news literacy announced by Google

Google News Initiative (GNI) has announced one million dollars grant for  Internews – a news literacy organisation, to counter fake news and misinformation in India. The initiative will focus on delivering news literacy, especially in the non-metro cities working towards building a strong network of senior reporters and journalists, who will counteract fake news in India. The funding support is part of Google’s broader, 10 million dollars commitment to media literacy.