As defined by Meta:

“Supported by the Meta Journalism Venture, the self-paced 90-minute course will educate journalists and human rights defenders learn how to shield their digital belongings and improve the safety of their operations.”

The new program has been created together with the Worldwide Heart for Journalists (ICFJ) and the Border Heart for Journalists and Bloggers (BCJB), and is accessible by way of the ICFJ web site.

Course modules embody

• Laying a robust digital safety basis
• Safe social media utilization
• How you can report from troublesome conditions in a safe trend
• Countering on-line harassment

Journalists and civil society advocates will quickly additionally have the ability to take part in a sequence of webinars on digital safety to additional improve their studying.

The course couldn’t be extra well timed, with Russian authorities now banning social media platforms and information retailers over what it claims has been misreporting of its invasion into Ukraine.

Each Fb and Twitter have been blocked for Russian customers (Instagram and WhatsApp stay energetic), whereas the BBC is one in all a number of main information retailers that’s been compelled to close down its Russian operations resulting from a latest legislation change which ‘seems to criminalize the method of impartial journalism’ in Russia.

Amid efforts to regulate what journalists can and can’t report, sustaining security for correspondents is essential, and this course will assist enhance digital literacy, in an effort to maximize on-line sources with out placing your self or your contacts at undue danger.

It’s a very good initiative, and hopefully it can allow extra journalists to higher perceive their choices on this respect.

You possibly can learn extra about Meta’s new safety and security coaching course right here.