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Ideas / COVID-19 / This pandemic isn’t a swan—it’s a canary
This pandemic isn’t a swan—it’s a canary
Training / Training the next generation of journalists to field dangerous claims
Training the next workforce to field dangerous claims
World Breastfeeding Week 2020: Supporting Moms, Protecting Babies, and Preventing Misinformation
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Ideas / Missing information, not just misinformation, is part of the problem
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In Calling for Equitable Information Access, Let’s Remember the Disability Digital Divide
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Network / Endorsement: Ecuadorian Journalists in the Health Emergency
Image from the #SOSperiodistas (#SOSjournalists) campaign
COVID-19 / When Misinformation Spreads Faster Than A Pandemic
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Research / Misinformation Research Highlights from ACL 2020
ACL 2020 Opening Remarks
Network / Watch: Reporting Barriers During COVID-19 with Maria Ressa
Watch: Reporting Barriers During COVID-19 with Maria Ressa
Network / Ideas / Check Global Strategy in Latin America
Check Global Strategy in Latin America
COVID-19 / Leveraging the COVID-19 Expert Database to visualize pandemic information
Leveraging the COVID-19 Expert Database to visualize pandemic information
Technology / Insights from 5,700 Fact-Checks on the WhatsApp Business API
COVID-19 / Nigeria Health Watch Partners with Meedan to counter COVID-19 misinformation in Nigeria
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Network / COVID-19 / 25 grassroots projects awarded through the Check Global COVID-19 Fund
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We Stand with Maria Ressa
Data / Meedan Receives Support from the Open Technology Fund to Develop the Claims and Memes Database
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COVID-19 / COVID-19 in Brazil: memory as a form of resistance
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We must demand more of our institutions and of our leaders
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Network / Elections, Promises, and COVID-19 : Three Years of Supporting Fact-Checking and Verification in East Africa
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Ideas / 3 (More!) Things We Learned about Cohesive Action from the Reboot
The Arc of Alignment as described by The Reboot
COVID-19 / Network / Get the latest COVID-19 expert updates in our weekly newsletter hosted by Dr. Seema Yasmin
Meedan covid-19 expert highlights
Network / COVID-19 / Looking back at the #VoicesOnTheRise Mediathon in Mexico
Chicas Poderosas Mexico Mediathon
Ideas / Textfakes, Deepfakes, and the Power of Context
Textfakes, Deepfakes, and the Power of Context
Network / Meedan recognizes World Press Freedom Day
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Network / 3 Things We Learned on “Designing Collaborations” from The Reboot's Masterclass
One of the slides from The Reboot's Masterclass.
Technology / Introducing Check Bot: A Customizable COVID-19 WhatsApp Bot for Fact-Checkers
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Technology / Image and claim matching for fact-checkers: A report from #TechAndCheck 2020
Caio Almeida and Scott Hale presenting for an all-remote Tech & Check 2020
COVID-19 / Meedan Supports the Open COVID Pledge
Meedan COVID Pledge
COVID-19 / Exploring COVID-19 in Emerging Economies: Announcing the 2020 Global Misinfodemic Report
2020 Misinfodemic Report: COVID-19 in Emerging Economies
Network / Join the Check Global Network for media and tech in emerging economies
Meedan check global network
COVID-19 / New Microgrants for COVID-19 Media Work in Emerging Economies
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COVID-19 / We’re building a database of expert-sourced COVID-19 information for fact-checkers
Meedan covid-19 database
COVID-19 / Five tips for fact-checking during a pandemic
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Network / Meet Our Regional Program Managers, APAC, Latin America and Africa
Meedan's New Program Managers
Network / Going Virtual: How Meedan is Doing the Conference Thing Online
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Network / Meedan and COVID-19
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Research / Digital Health: Fact-checking in an era of misinfodemics
Digital Health: Fact-checking in an era of misinfodemics
Technology / Caio Almeida on software that serves a global community
Caio Almeida
Data / Our veteran journalist on WhatsApp misinformation during India’s elections
Shalini Joshi
Network / How Meedan supported three reporting initiatives in Asia
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Research / Signaling Credibility — What We’re Building at the W3C
Happy birthday, CredWeb! Here’s us presenting on our work at the W3C Technical Plenary / Advisory Committee meeting in Burlingame, CA on November 8, 2017
Network / Five Insights For Collaborative Natural Disaster Reporting From Hurricane Florence
“Florence off the East Coast” by Stuart Rankin (CC BY-NC 2.0)

Recent Press

If we had not had Check there as a tool, it would’ve been very difficult to manage that workflow, Having the collaborative aspect of Check as a platform was essential for CrossCheck. –Sam Dubberley, CrossCheck’s Managing Editor on using Check covering the French Elections
Here comes a tool, approved by WhatsApp, to automate the distribution of fact-checks
Poynter
Coronavirus misinformation surges, fueled by clout chasers
NBC News
It’s not misinformation. It’s faith.
Columbia Journalism Review
The Credibility Coalition is working to establish the common elements of trustworthy articles
journalism.co.uk
To Free Themselves From Lies, Journalists are Using New Tools and Techniques to Check Facts
Editor & Publisher Magazine

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The Weekly Roundup

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