The Google News Initiative India Training Network is an initiative led by DataLEADS to support journalists, fact-checkers and media educators across India in their fight against misinformation. Google News Initiative, in collaboration with DataLEADS, has established one of the world’s largest fact-checking initiatives in India, the GNI India Training Network. The Network supports journalists and media educators with digital training and upskilling opportunities. In its 5th year, the Network has so far trained 73,000+  journalists, media educators, fact-checkers and journalism students in more than 15+ languages across India, benefiting thousands of newsrooms and universities.

FactShala is a media and information literacy programme run by DataLEADS with support from the Google News Initiative. The programme helps people from small cities and villages across India to critically assess online information and sift facts from misinformation. FactShala is run by DataLEADS with support from the Google News Initiative. It was launched in 2020 by Internews with support from Google.org. The vision is to empower communities around them with ethical approaches to information literacy and critical thinking skills.

The Bihar Information and Media Literacy Initiative is led by DataLEADS in partnership with the Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain and supported by the Mercury Project, a research programme of Social Science Research Council (SSRC), New York.

This initiative is implemented with the support of JEEViKA, Government of Bihar. Its goal is to study the impact of a media literacy intervention, by conducting a series of workshops for 6000+ school-going students (grades 8-12), across 32 districts of Bihar state of India. The intervention will focus on health-related news literacy, which is a crucial aspect of media and information literacy. This makes BIMLI a unique program implemented at such a large scale in India