The article discusses theoretical and practical issues related to the use of IT (information technology) in media and social media information verification system. The actual nature of this problem is due to the specifics of the current situation in the information space. The development of modern technologies makes it possible to create and distribute deliberately false content, which in some cases practically cannot be separated from reliable information. This formulates a request for the creation of hybrid factchecking technologies that would allow combining traditional methods of information verification and the capabilities of applied AI (artificial intelligence). The solution of this problem is necessary, first of all, in the context of protection from falsified and unreliable information, the formation of media literacy of the audience. The article analyzes theoretical approaches to the implementation of this task, presented in the works of foreign and domestic researchers. Based on their conclusions, the authors present a description of their own author’s approach to the process of verifying information using AI technologies, consider examples and possibilities of their implementation in this context. The article also analyzes the methodology for verifying media and social media information within the framework of the international educational project #СТУДFACTCHECK, which has been functioning at the Institute of Philology and Journalism of the Lobachevsky National Research University since 2020 to the present. According to the authors of this study, the experience of the project can be used as a basic model in the process of developing a universal information verification system in Russia at the present stage, including with the use of applied artificial intelligence technologies. The involvement of IT specialists in the creation of methods for automating information verification processes with their subsequent implementation in the process of training future journalists and specialists in the field of mass communication is an urgent task, the implementation of which involves the interaction of IT specialists and socio-humanitarian knowledge.