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Q&A: Indian fact-checkers lead with innovation and diversity, says IFCN director after Delhi visit

The IFCN director shares takeaways from her India visit, including fact-checkers’ innovations, regional challenges and global lessons

December 17, 2024

Opinion | The next chapter for fact-checking: information integrity

Fact-checking needs to evolve to meet new challenges

December 5, 2024

Peter Cunliffe-Jones

Africa’s fact-checking community shows its growing strength in collaboration, investigations

The Africa Facts fact-checking conference drew 200 participants from around the continent

December 5, 2024

Angie Drobnic Holan

Wisconsin Watch pushes to fill fact deserts as local news disappear

The nonprofit newsroom looks beyond temporary fact-checking campaigns during close electoral contests

November 19, 2024

IFCN awards GROW 2024 grants to 20 projects from $12M global fund

The grants are funded by Google and YouTube to support fact-checking initiatives worldwide and reduce the harm of misinformation

October 21, 2024

IFCN names winners of Meta grants to combat AI-generated misinformation on WhatsApp

The initiative builds on efforts to connect people with facts and develop solutions for the global fact-checking community

August 15, 2024

The International Fact-Checking Network

The International Fact-Checking Network’s statement on threats against Ellinika Hoaxes

An elected leader’s threats to ban a fact-checking organization are unacceptable

August 6, 2024

The International Fact-Checking Network

IFCN’s $12 million Global Fact Check Fund opens applications for second round of ‘GROW’ grants

The deadline for GROW, funded by Google and YouTube, is Sept. 3, 2024.

July 26, 2024

The International Fact-Checking Network

10 tips for effective election fact-checking

‘What does a good election look like?’

July 23, 2024

Saja H. Mortada

‘We continue this fight:’ Georgian fact-checkers won’t back down after passage of foreign agents law

Controversial law leaves fact-checkers concerned about personal safety, future operations and growth of authoritarianism

July 1, 2024

Loreben Tuquero

Populism is a major threat to democracy, political scientist Steven Levitsky warns

An independent press is critical to sustaining democracy, says the Harvard professor

June 28, 2024

Fact-checkers from Turkey, India and Georgia win GlobalFact 11 awards

Turkish outlet Teyit won the Highest Impact award for its work investigating Palestinian land sales to Israelis

June 28, 2024

Two years after an open letter to YouTube, fact-checkers remain dissatisfied with the platform’s inaction

YouTube has been dogged by the same problems fact-checkers raised years ago

June 28, 2024

Loreben Tuquero

10 fact-checking projects in 8 countries named finalists for IFCN’s GlobalFact impact award

The International Fact-Checking Network will award the winner at the end of GlobalFact 11

June 28, 2024

Fact-checkers urge collaboration, caution in using artificial intelligence tools

‘When dealing with this new, and yet to grow, devil of AI, we need to be together’

June 27, 2024

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