The Center for Community Media at CUNY’s Newmark Graduate School of Journalism convened a 90-minute information session on Jan. 29 introducing journalists to VERDAD, an artificial-intelligence tool built to help newsrooms track and investigate misinformation on Spanish-language and ethnic radio stations, according to the center’s Community Media Bulletin.

VERDAD, which stands for Verifying and Exposing Radio Disinformation and Discourse, targets platforms the center said are often overlooked by traditional monitoring. The bulletin described the session, titled “Understanding VERDAD,” as a chance for journalists to learn how AI-driven tracking can be used to protect audiences from targeted disinformation.