For the first time on a regional level, the “Fact-Checking Teaching Guide” (in Arabic) supported by CFI, is launched during the #ARIJ25 Forum. After 18 months of research, interviews, and focus groups with media professors, the guide emerges as an academic and professional reference in the field 🎓
📌 The guide is designed for: 👩🏫 Journalism and media professors 🎓 Students and journalism schools across the Arab world 🧑💻 Anyone teaching, working, researching, or training in fact-checking
🔧AFCN will work actively to integrate it into media faculties curricula in MENA.
💡 Our new project #Bousolah with support from the European Union
📌 Led by ARIJ in collaboration with “Journalism & Citizenship”
⏳ Runs for 4 years (2025–2029)
🌍 MENA Regional Project
The project focuses on: ⬇️
🔎 Strengthening capacity and providing professional support for media outlets and fact-checking organizations
🤝 Encouraging cross-border collaboration and enhancing strategic coordination among stakeholders in media development
🎓 The third edition of the ARIJ Fact-Checking Diploma in Arabic
We are opening applications for 30 seats in the 3rd edition of the ARIJ Fact-Checking Diploma! 🎓
🌍 Open to journalists and fact-checkers from across the Arab world
⏳ A six-month intensive program (April – September 2026) focused on practical fact-checking training
🕵️♂️ Participants produce in-depth and investigative reports on disinformation
📅 Applications close on 5 February 2026
The “Fact-Checking Report Quality Assurance” Booklet Brings together:
🔹A full year of AFCN’s research on selecting claims and assessing the quality of Arabic fact-checking reports
📚Insights inspired by UK researcher Peter Cunliffe-Jones’ book “Fake News – What’s the Harm?”
🛠️AFCN practical experience in supporting and evaluating its community work
✔️ This booklet is designed to support every fact-checker in the Arab world and to encourage continuous development in the face of disinformation.
🎯Summary of three years of research on information disorder and fact-checking in the Arab world
The ARIJ’s AFCN concludes 3 years of research on information disorder in the Arab world, and on fact-checking as an essential response to it 🎯
The study is part of a project led by Stellenbosch University in South Africa, supported by the IDRC. The project is the result of joint collaboration among 4 organizations from the Global South:
📌 ARIJ’s AFCN from the Arab World
📌 Internet Lab from Latin America
📌 LIRNEasia from Asia
📌 Research ICT from Africa
📘 The project’s book, covering the entire Global South, will also be released early next year.