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…
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…
The Road to Building an Arab Fact-Checking Community
Competitive Call from ARIJ’s AFCN and FPU September 28, 2023 Free Press Unlimited (FPU), in collaboration with Arab Fact-Checkers Network (AFCN) from Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ), is implementing a programme called “Core Support for Independent Media in the Southern Neighborhood” funded by the European Union from 2021 to 2026. The main objective…
ARIJ’s AFCN Fact Lab: A new fact-checking project supported by GNI September 28, 2023 In commemoration of the International Day for Universal Access to Information, ARIJ‘s Arab Fact-Checkers Network (AFCN) proudly announces its partnership with Google News Initiative, to launch the “AFCN FactLab” project starting Sep 2023 and implement it on the ground in 10+…
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AFCN organised its first regional meeting in 2022 7/2/2022 The Arab Fact-Checkers Network (AFCN) by ARIJ organised its first regional meeting, which included 18 fact-checking organisations/initiatives and some freelance fact-checkers from more than 10 Arabic countries. For the first time they gathered in a closed meeting to discuss the first draft of the network’s…
AFCN Organises its First Fact-checking Workshop in Beirut January 20, 2022 The Arab Fact-Checkers Network (AFCN) led by ARIJ held a four-days workshop in Beirut, on “Pre and Post-publication Fact-Checking” ahead of the Parliamentary Elections, between January 17-20, 2022, within the project “Sa7” which is part of the regional program “Qarib”, implemented by the…
#SA7 project’s 1st webinar: 4 fact-checking organisations discussed the project’s objectives 11 January 2022 The Arab Fact-Checkers Network (AFCN), led by the ARIJ, hosted the first webinar of the Sa7 Project on January 11, 2022, with over 190 participants via Zoom and 1,100 viewers on Facebook, under the title “Sa7 Project: towards building…
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