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…
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
Studying information disorder in the Arab world: Drivers and fact-checking response ‘By ARIJ’s AFCN’ The ARIJ’s AFCN’s inaugural year participating in the IDRC study (2023-2025) focused on identifying the primary drivers of information disorder in the Arab region. Given the complexity of this task, the research team adopted a qualitative approach, emphasizing interviews to gain…
Resources Meeting the Challenges of Information Disorder in the Global South The Arab Fact-Checkers Network (AFCN) by ARIJ contributed to the study “Meeting the Challenges of Information Disorder in the Global South” covering the Middle East and North Africa, alongside with teams of independent fact-checkers in Latin America, policy makers in Africa and media education…
Combatting Disinformation in the Arab world ARIJ Publishes Policy Paper: “Combating Disinformation in the Arab World – The COVID-19 pandemic as a case study”
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