Meedan

Check/3pfc: - supported the #factsfirstph consortium, which was composed of 11 filipino fact-checkers and newsrooms. The consortium exchanged qualitative and quantitative data to combat misinformation during the philippines general elections, and generated and distributed over 1,230 fact-checks to ensure accurate information reached the public.- brought together a coalition of newsrooms to address misinformation on whatsapp around brazil's 2022 presidential election. The initiative, called confirma 2022, provided brazil's superior electoral court (tse) with the ability to distribute trusted fact-checks from news partners to the voting public through a whatsapp bot. The partner newsrooms collected 347,000 anonymous questions and requests for fact-checks from voters throughout six whatsapp tiplines, and responded to those questions with fact-checks using Meedan's platform, check. - grew the number of active newsroom tiplines to 45 in 15 countries, resulting in 419,183 conversations between fact-checkers and audience members and 237,120 audience members receiving at least one fact-check.

Digital health lab (dhl): - used text similarity machine learning to analyze covid-19 information needs versus resources provided by intergovernmental health institutions globally. Of 500 faqs, only 403 addressed the us and uk's needs, showing a need for better feedback loops between seekers and providers.- researched the impact of harmful online content on offline health outcomes, such as gendered misinformation and hate speech affecting women in power, as well as threats to journalists and science communicators reporting on contentious health issues. The team also highlighted online abuse and threats to safety during a unfpa summit session.- hosted two community events bringing together various stakeholders, including trust and safety workers from social media companies, researchers in civil society and academia, and fact-checkers and journalists to discuss content moderation work.- developed resources for fact-checking organizations and journalists to combat gendered health misinformation related to pregnancy and infant care, gender-affirming care, and abortion. More research is needed to understand the relative risks of gendered health misinformation narratives and effective approaches to content moderation.- provided ongoing support to journalists and fact-checkers reporting on complex science topics, ranging from infectious disease to the impact of climate change on health outcomes, through the health desk initiative.

Check global: - worked in 25+ countries across the global south, and with hundreds of journalists, civil society organizations, students, grassroot media collectives, archivists, activists and human rights defenders to: a) enhance their ability to better engage with their changing information ecosystems through media literacy training and capacity building efforts; b) address crises of mis/disinformation through the provision of tools that help them contextualize, verify and annotate content, and c) build an inclusive network of collaborators across north africa western asia, latin america and the caribbean, sub saharan africa and asia pacific, thus paving the way for more meaningful knowledge exchange opportunities between its members.- the check global independent media response fund (imrf) received more than 450 applications from 68 countries and made 29 grants focused on climate misinformation, to media practitioners, independent media newsrooms, fact-checking groups, citizen journalism projects, human rights defenders, researchers, and technology and digital literacy advocates.- the nawa newsroom marked its sixth year by providing journalism students with advanced training sessions on topics such as media landscape, misinformation, verification tools, and emerging technologies. Students also engaged in projects tackling climate misinformation, contributed to the nawa media credibility index, and received microgrants through the check global program to support their investigative endeavors.