In October 2022, a coalition of five fact-checking newsrooms came together to provide high-quality information to voters in Brazil for a closely contested election that ultimately needed to go to a run-off phase. The project, called Confirma 2022, was supported by funds from WhatsApp at Meta, and consisted of several broad workstreams: technology, data governance, mental health, and academic research. 

  • This election project was innovative because Meedan offered its Check software to host a Shared Feed of fact-checks, which allowed for scaled fact-check distribution through a third-party chatbot run by Brazil’s Tribunal Superior Electoral, the country’s top election authority—something that had never been done before in Brazil. 
  • Meedan prepared and delivered a well-attended and interactive mental health workshop in Portuguese that addressed the specific challenges of fact-checking work.

“I believe that this project helped us to reach a much larger audience via WhatsApp, and to focus on issues that were more important during the elections. We were more able to understand which misinformative narratives were most damaging at any given moment and direct our resources to debunk them.”
Chico Marés
Chico Marés
Head of Journalism (former), Agência Lupa
at Meedan

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