In Memory of Lebanese Journalist and Fact-Checker Alaa Salman  Alaa Haidar Salman was a young Lebanese journalist and fact-checker working with Sawab, a fact-checking organization in Lebanon. She was killed when an Israeli airstrike hit her family’s home in May 2026. Born on March 16, 2006, in Maarakeh, a town in the Tyre district of…

  The ARIJ’s AFCN Holds its Second Regional Meeting for 2026   July 2, 2026 The Arab Fact-Checkers Network (AFCN) from ARIJ held its second regional meeting for 2026 on Thursday, July 2, under the title: “Fact-checking during our difficult regional circumstances: How to set priorities, measure harm, and strengthen our regional resilience?”. 19 fact-checking…

War in the Middle East: Key Misinformation Trends During the Middle East war (March–April 2026), the ARIJ’s Arab Fact-Checkers Network (AFCN) Fact-Checking Chatbot received hundreds of claims for verification related to Iran, Lebanon, Palestine, and the Gulf region. In this report, we present our key findings on misinformation trends and our fact-checking efforts throughout that…

Hope, Collaboration and Innovation: Inside GlobalFact 13 Vilnius, Lithuania  June 17-19, 2026 More than 300 fact-checkers, journalists, researchers and information integrity experts from across the globe gathered in Vilnius for GlobalFact 13, the world’s leading fact-checking summit. Organized by the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) in partnership with regional and international organizations, the conference came at…

Information Disorder and Resilience in the Global South ARIJ’s Arab Fact-Checkers Network (AFCN) led the MENA component of a three-year international research project on information disorder in the Global South from 2023 to 2025, alongside research teams from Africa (Research ICT Africa), South-East Asia (LIRNEasia) and Latin America (InternetLab). The project was led by the…

  AFCN Concludes Training to Enhance the Sustainability of Fact-Checking Organizations   April 9, 2026 The Arab Fact-Checkers Network (AFCN) from ARIJ, concluded a specialized training held over two days, April 8 and 9, 2026, & titled: “Enhancing the Sustainability of Fact-Checking Organizations: From Funding to Reporting and Proposal Writing.” The training had active participation…

  The ARIJ’s AFCN Holds Its First Regional Meeting in 2026   1 April 2026 The Arab Fact-Checkers Network (AFCN) from ARIJ held its first regional meeting for 2026 on Wednesday, April 1st, the 17th meeting in a series of regional meetings held by the network since its founding. The meeting was attended by 21…

A Research Paper: Speed and Accuracy in Wartime Verification: Insights from AFCN and its Community The study “Speed and Accuracy in Wartime Verification: Human-in-the-Loop Fact-Checking with AI across Gaza, Ukraine and Lake Chad”, produced under the Al Jazeera Fellowship 2024 and published in early 2026, examines the growing challenges of fact-checking in conflict settings. It explores how…

ARIJ’s AFCN Concluded a Training for 4 Arab Media Organizations on Pre-Publication Fact-Checking  February 18, 2026 The Arab Fact-Checkers Network (AFCN) from “ARIJ” concluded an intensive interactive digital training workshop titled “Basics of Pre-Publication Fact-Checking inside Newsrooms,” which lasted for three days on February 16, 17, and 18, 2026. The workshop targeted more than 18…

ARIJ’s AFCN Supports Sustainability of 9 Fact-Checking Organizations in 2025 January 4, 2026 The Arab Fact-Checkers Network (AFCN) from ARIJ announced during its annual campaign on April 2, 2025 (International Fact-Checking Day), the launch of the second round of its competitive “SA7” project sub-grant. This comes amid the escalating challenges and political changes sweeping the…

In Memory of Lebanese Journalist and Fact-Checker Alaa Salman  Alaa Haidar Salman was a young Lebanese journalist and fact-checker working with Sawab, a fact-checking organization in Lebanon. She was killed when an Israeli airstrike hit her family’s home in May 2026. Born on March 16, 2006, in Maarakeh, a town in the Tyre district of…

  The ARIJ’s AFCN Holds its Second Regional Meeting for 2026   July 2, 2026 The Arab Fact-Checkers Network (AFCN) from ARIJ held its second regional meeting for 2026 on Thursday, July 2, under the title: “Fact-checking during our difficult regional circumstances: How to set priorities, measure harm, and strengthen our regional resilience?”. 19 fact-checking…

War in the Middle East: Key Misinformation Trends During the Middle East war (March–April 2026), the ARIJ’s Arab Fact-Checkers Network (AFCN) Fact-Checking Chatbot received hundreds of claims for verification related to Iran, Lebanon, Palestine, and the Gulf region. In this report, we present our key findings on misinformation trends and our fact-checking efforts throughout that…

Hope, Collaboration and Innovation: Inside GlobalFact 13 Vilnius, Lithuania  June 17-19, 2026 More than 300 fact-checkers, journalists, researchers and information integrity experts from across the globe gathered in Vilnius for GlobalFact 13, the world’s leading fact-checking summit. Organized by the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) in partnership with regional and international organizations, the conference came at…

Information Disorder and Resilience in the Global South ARIJ’s Arab Fact-Checkers Network (AFCN) led the MENA component of a three-year international research project on information disorder in the Global South from 2023 to 2025, alongside research teams from Africa (Research ICT Africa), South-East Asia (LIRNEasia) and Latin America (InternetLab). The project was led by the…

  AFCN Concludes Training to Enhance the Sustainability of Fact-Checking Organizations   April 9, 2026 The Arab Fact-Checkers Network (AFCN) from ARIJ, concluded a specialized training held over two days, April 8 and 9, 2026, & titled: “Enhancing the Sustainability of Fact-Checking Organizations: From Funding to Reporting and Proposal Writing.” The training had active participation…

  The ARIJ’s AFCN Holds Its First Regional Meeting in 2026   1 April 2026 The Arab Fact-Checkers Network (AFCN) from ARIJ held its first regional meeting for 2026 on Wednesday, April 1st, the 17th meeting in a series of regional meetings held by the network since its founding. The meeting was attended by 21…

A Research Paper: Speed and Accuracy in Wartime Verification: Insights from AFCN and its Community The study “Speed and Accuracy in Wartime Verification: Human-in-the-Loop Fact-Checking with AI across Gaza, Ukraine and Lake Chad”, produced under the Al Jazeera Fellowship 2024 and published in early 2026, examines the growing challenges of fact-checking in conflict settings. It explores how…

ARIJ’s AFCN Concluded a Training for 4 Arab Media Organizations on Pre-Publication Fact-Checking  February 18, 2026 The Arab Fact-Checkers Network (AFCN) from “ARIJ” concluded an intensive interactive digital training workshop titled “Basics of Pre-Publication Fact-Checking inside Newsrooms,” which lasted for three days on February 16, 17, and 18, 2026. The workshop targeted more than 18…

ARIJ’s AFCN Supports Sustainability of 9 Fact-Checking Organizations in 2025 January 4, 2026 The Arab Fact-Checkers Network (AFCN) from ARIJ announced during its annual campaign on April 2, 2025 (International Fact-Checking Day), the launch of the second round of its competitive “SA7” project sub-grant. This comes amid the escalating challenges and political changes sweeping the…