According to the article Five Tools for Journalists of “What New In Publishing, WNIP)” Adults of US inculcate activists and political leaders more than journalists for fabricating the made-up news or information purposive to mislead the public. The article said that the tool “Google Reverse Image Search” is handy for journalists to find out the similar image and to know if there is anything manipulated in the context of the image. The tool named “TinEye” also works the same as Google reverse image and has more than 37 million images data and it updates this data regularly. It also tells about the tool Forensically Beta, this tool detects the clone inclusion, error levels, noise analysis and metadata extractions in an image who you doubt to be doctored by someone.

In the context of digital tools to counter misinformation or fake news or manipulated image, video, tweet, social media post there is a tool called Boto Meter who provides you information regards any twitter account that the account is run by human or bot and there followers are humans or bot according to “Objective Analysis Effective Solutions”. Another tool to counter YouTube videos is named “YouTube Data Viewer” and it is introduced by Amnesty International. It works when you copy the video URL and paste it in a tool, it provides the information to verify the original video.

The Mass Communication or Media Journalism students from public sector universities of Quetta respond to the survey questions regarding this issue. Thirty Eight percent of students from University of Balochistan (UOB), Balochistan University of Information Technology Engineering and Management Sciences (BUITEMS), Sardar Bahadur Khan Women University (SBKWU) said they know some digital tools to counter fake news and misinformation like google reverse image, tineye, Yandex, Forensically beta, botometer, YouTube Data viewer  but they learn from the training workshops organized by Individualland, Pakistan. 8 percent of students responded the questions of survey that they know some digital tools like Fakey, Invid from their respective institutes. The rest of  54 percent don’t even know the digital tools to combat the fake news or misinformation. The question is that their institutes educate them about these digital tools theoretically and practically almost 71 percent responded NO. More than 70 percent of the students agreed that the inclusion of course in regarding fake news, misinformation, and disinformation and the digital tools to counter them should be added in the curriculum of Mass Communication or Media and Journalism department because academia is the base of media and journalism students. Some of major finding of survey mention below in table.

In counter to the views and response of Media and Journalism students of Quetta the Head of Media and Journalism Department at UOB Professor Dr. Babrak Niaz commented that they never educate students about misinformation, disinformation, and fake news. He said UOB is the public sector university and we try to teach students each and every aspect of media and journalism in our limited resources whether it is about online digital media tactics or it is about traditional media techniques.

Babrak Niaz says, “we try to maintain productivity with limited resources and the student who graduates nowadays from our university are much better than the student who graduated in 2014 or 2015. Nowadays we try to teach media students in theoretical as well as practical approaches in which include blogging, documentary making, production of news packages etc. Sometimes students don’t take proper classes and never focus on their studies and then blame the department.”

He said that the awareness of misinformation and fake news and the digital tools to counter this global issue is not only necessary for just mass media or journalism students it is also important to other department students of academia and in our institute we try to include the course of “Introduction to Mass Communication” to other departments as subsidiary course in their course content. The introduction course and awareness regarding the digital tools to counter misinformation and fake news issues must be added at the school level because the coming generation is native to digital technologies compared to us.

The Head of Department Media and Journalism Spozmei Shah from SBK University said that in the scenario where spreading of misinformation and fake news is so much easier so Media Information Literacy or the knowledge of Digital Media Tools to fight against misinformation, disinformation, and fake news is an essential for every media student or media practitioner. She said that in our institute we didn’t teach them misinformation and fake news and the digital media tools to counter them as a specific course, says Spozmei Shah.

She added, “we just educate our media students the basic concept of misinformation and disinformation as topic and teach them that not only read the headline but go through the whole story and find what is the source of the information what is the tone of the story and critically analyze the profile of person who shared that specific information is he or she credible or not.”

“We face some hurdles to update our curriculum and introduce these type of advance courses for our media students. We have a plan to revise our curriculum next year and introduce misinformation and fake news and the digital media tools as proper courses because it is the need of time. In 2019 is the last time that we will revise our curriculum. But to fill this gap we make sure of the spots of our students in different training media workshops,” Shah added.

She said that we support them to fully participate in them and learn modern techniques and tactics. In last she agreed that the digital media tools to counter fake news and misinformation is included as a course in the curriculum in which we teach students how to find out that the news they receive is manipulated or not, the image or post of social media is real or doctored image and how to make yourself neutral and not be a part of any propaganda which is propagate by any political party or anyone else.