Alexios Mantzarlis is a recovering fact-checker and tech worker with some experience in governments both national and international. He cares about online information quality as a fundamental prerequisite for healthy societies. He is currently setting up a new graduate program on digital safety at Cornell Tech. He also writes Faked Up, a newsletter about digital deception, on the side. Alexios joined Poynter to lead the International Fact-Checking Network in September of 2015. In that capacity he wrote about and advocated for fact-checking. He also trained and conveneed fact-checkers globally. Mantzarlis also previously served as Managing Editor of Pagella Politica (Disclosure) and FactCheckEU, respectively Italy's main political fact-checking website and the EU's first multilingual crowd-checking project. He has presented fact-checking segments on Italian TV and led seminars on fact-checking around the world. Before becoming a fact-checker he worked for the United Nations and the Italian Institute for International Political Studies.