The Lahore University of Management Sciences ( LUMS) has won the highly competitive Facebook Integrity Foundational Research Award worth $50,000 for their proposal, "Understanding the Impact of Digital Literacy on Misinformation in Pakistan" through two profound instructors Dr Ayesha Ali, Assistant Professor of Economics at Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences (MGSHSS), LUMS and Dr Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering (SBASSE)".

Facebook Research Awards are structured as unrestricted monetary awards that provide funding for innovative and compelling research proposals that have the potential to significantly advance knowledge in areas of mutual interest.-PR

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