Sameen Aziz

Sameen Aziz is a senior fact-checker at Soch Fact Check. She is also part of the training network by the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA-Asia) and Google News Initiative for digital investigations and media literacy program, providing trainings to students and journalists in Pakistan. Her work has been featured in Forbes, Salzburg Global, and Lok Sujag. Sameen holds a master's degree in media and communication studies from International Islamic University, Islamabad, with research on media framing and misinformation around COVID-19, and a bachelor's degree in mass communication from G.C. University, Faisalabad.

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Jan 17, 2022
Politics
Clickbait headline wrongly portrays MNA’s resolution on CNICs as having been passed
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Claim: An Urdu news website published an article with the headline, “How many lives have been lost due to the presence of residential addresses on identity cards. Is the ID card going to change?”  Fact: The news headline is misleading as it suggests some change to the National Identity Card (NIC) is impending, when this […]

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Jan 17, 2022
Culture, Education
Reports wrongly state co-education banned in Chakwal after notification withdrawn
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Claim: A top education officer has issued a ban on co-education in Chakwal schools.  Fact: The claim is misleading. The Deputy District Education Officer (M-EE) for Chakwal did issue a notification on the “prohibition of co-education in government schools at elementary level” in Chakwal but this notification was cancelled by the DC Office Chakwal shortly […]

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