Md Mahfuzul Haque
Md Mahfuzul Haque
Md Mahfuzul Haque’s research focuses on fact-checking and its role in combating misinformation. Specifically, he studies the challenges associated with fact-checking and explores ways to make it sustainable.
Using a human-computer interaction approach, he explores how ordinary people, fact-checkers and computational technology can work together to improve fact-checking. Before his doctoral studies, he was a staff writer for New Age, an English-language national newspaper in Bangladesh. He wrote long-form stories about politics, human rights and the environment for the newspaper.
Areas of Interest
- Fact-checking
- Mis-/Disinformation
- Media literacy
- Media and democracy
- Journalism studies
- Digital journalism
- Online news
- Human-computer interaction
Education
- B.A. (Mass Communication), University of Rajshahi (Bangladesh)
- M.A. (Journalism, Media and Communication), University of Dhaka (Bangladesh)
- M.A. (Journalism), University of Mississippi