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Today is International Fact-Checking Day 2026 - a global reminder that in a world flooded with information, truth must be intentional.
At FactCheckAfrica, our work goes beyond debunking false claims. We are building something deeper - a culture where citizens are not passive consumers of information, but active validators of truth.
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@Factchequado ’s Laura Zommer and Natalia Colombo offer this: Fact-checking must be reimagined as civic infrastructure. This does not mean simply building better websites or tools. It means developing a network of capacities and relationships that allow reliable information to circulate through everyday public life.
Read Zommer and Colombo’s column, as well as other voices from around the International Fact-Checking Network, at the link in bio. International #FactCheckingDay #FactsMatter
Every day, fact-checkers around the world go to work against a relentless flood of online falsehoods. We asked them: What does that fight actually look like right now? The State of the Fact-Checkers Report outlines all of that, and more. Register at the link in bio for our session tomorrow, April 2 at 9 a.m. EDT, to see more results and analysis. Happy International #FactCheckingDay! #FactsMatter
Factchequeado Co-founder and CEO Laura Zommer said innovation does not mean shifting how journalism is done, but rather how it’s delivered to audiences.
“We need to explain complex things, but we need to do that in the places, the channels and the formats that our audiences are choosing every day,” Zommer said. “ If we are not doing that… , we are losing the battle.” Zommer spoke at #GlobalFact12 in Rio de Janeiro, where over 300 fact-checkers gathered last week.
Scenes from #GlobalFact12: The world’s largest gathering of fact-checkers coming together to share tools and reflect on how the community can chart a new path collectively.
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“The way to be the resistance is to do our work the best that we can.”
One of #GlobalFact12’s keynote speakers, Brazilian journalist PatrĂcia Campos Mello is reporter at large and columnist at Folha de SĂŁo Paulo newspaper.
O Global Fact 12 reuniu, durante três dias, especialistas de todo o mundo para discutir os desafios da desinformação em escala global.
Na FGV Comunicação, vozes influentes do jornalismo, da tecnologia, da polĂtica e da academia debateram o papel das plataformas, os riscos da inteligĂŞncia artificial generativa e os caminhos para fortalecer a verificação de fatos como polĂtica pĂşblica.
Foi a primeira vez que o maior evento internacional de fact-checking aconteceu no Brasil e um momento importante para reafirmar o compromisso com a informação de qualidade no debate público.
Despite the challenges they discussed, Day 2 keynote panelists encouraged fact-checkers to continue their work.
“There are people that want us to stop doing our job, there are people that want journalists not to exist,” Factchequeado CEO and Co-Founder Laura Zommer said. “This is exactly the moment where we can’t stop doing what we are doing.”
Bruno Fávero of @aosfatos reflects on the tension between visibility and sustainability in emerging platforms — and why the fact-checking community has a chance to chart a new path collectively.
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Factchequeado Co-founder and CEO Laura Zommer said that for journalists to resist being defunded by change, “we need to be more creative, more collaborative and more innovative.” Zommer spoke at #GlobalFact12 in Rio de Janeiro, where over 300 fact-checkers gathered this week.
As Big Tech gains power and authoritarianism expands around the world, the core tension in journalism remains “the same as always,” said Jaime Abello, general director and co-founder of the Gabo Foundation.
“It’s between power and independent journalism,” Abello said. “And technology that was once a tool, is today a new source of power, because the authors of technology have become a strong power, and they have a new agenda. Things are changing.”
At #GlobalFact Day 2, three leading journalists from Latin America shared a message of hope amid ongoing attacks on the industry, and made a shared point clear: Fact-checkers uphold the ethics of journalism, but they also have a responsibility to educate the public about their process.
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🖊️Maria Ramirez Uribe, PolitiFact reporter
