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.
