Fact-Checking Around the World: FLSI at Global Fact 7
This year, the Fact-Checkers Legal Support Initiative will be hosting a session at Global Fact 7, the annual IFCN-led conference for fact-checkers around the world. Due to Covid-19, this year’s conference will be taking place online from the 22nd – 30th June. There...
COVID-19: Fact-Checkers Overworked and Under Threat
Global crises like Covid-19 make it clear that the need for fact-checking and protecting fact-checkers has never been so strong. In the digital age, misinformation spreads so easily that during Covid-19, the Director-General of the World Health Organisation has stated...
The Struggles of Fact Checking in Greece: Ellinika Hoaxes
Nowadays, Thanos Sitistas is always looking over his shoulder. He serves as senior editor in a tight-knit team of fact-checkers at Ellinika Hoaxes, a fact-checking media outlet in Greece that aims to combat disinformation through debunking fake news on a variety of...