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As popular uprisings sweep across the Arab region, Meedan supports social media-based journalism and translation including the Speak2Tweet Egyptian voice message translation effort.

Meedan develops Checkdesk in time for the 2012 Egyptian presidential election, partnering with Egyptian newsrooms to monitor social media content.

Checkdesk expands its user base to media and civil society partners in Jordan, Lebanon, and Palestine.

Meedan develops Bridge, another new tool that helps support collaborative social media translation. Meedan wins a British Research Council award to deploy a version of its multilingual annotation and conversation platform for religious scholars.

Checkdesk becomes Check. More than just a name change, the product is rebuilt to support collaborative verification and data sharing between partner organizations during moments of exception, such as elections and natural disasters.

Check provides key infrastructure for Electionland, a partnership initiative of media organizations, technology companies, and journalism schools covering the 2016 election in the U.S. Spearheaded by ProPublica and Google News Lab, Electionland represents one of the largest real-time efforts to collaboratively cover voting issues in U.S. history. It goes on to win recognition for excellence in collaboration and partnerships from the Online News Association.

Meedan’s Pop-up Newsroom designs and supports Verificado, a coalition of 90 media partners covering Mexico’s national elections. The project earns another Online News Association award.

A new initiative, Check Global, builds on previous programmatic efforts at Meedan and begins the process of supporting a high-impact network of media organizations, human rights defenders, and archivists across dozens of countries.


Meedan partners with WhatApp pilot Meta's third party fact-checking program in Brazil, India and the US. Soon thereafter, Meedan becomes the provider of key technical and programmatic infrastructure for Meta’s Larger World-based third-party fact-checking partners who run tiplines on WhatsApp.

Meedan’s Digital Health Lab, established in 2019, shifts into high gear as the COVID-19 pandemic spreads across the globe. Our team builds a rapid-response framework for connecting fact-checking organizations, journalists, and other community information leaders to health experts worldwide.

Meedan partners with Rappler and the Google News Initiative to launch #FactsFirstPH, an effort that unites more than 140 civil society organizations, newsrooms, and civic groups to provide fact-checking for the presidential election in the Philippines. The project earns an award for Most Innovative Collaboration at Global Fact 9.

Meedan joins together with Brazil’s leading fact-checking organizations to form Confirma, an election coalition that works in partnership with Brazil’s electoral court to distribute fact-checks for a massive WhatsApp audience. Confirma earns an award for Most Innovative and Impactful Collaboration at Global Fact 10.

With an initial focus on climate misinformation, the Independent Media Response Fund is created through Check Global to award microgrants, training, and networking opportunities to small and medium-sized media organizations across the Larger World.

Following decades of dedicated work in programming and technology development, Meedan is honored with a prestigious Skoll Award for Social Innovation.

In an unprecedented year for global elections, Meedan partners with media and civil society from around the world to help promote information integrity.