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Dear ,
It’s been a while since we last reached your inbox. However, it’s been exciting days here at the International Fact-Checking Network at the Poynter Institute. We have expanded our team with two most–qualified professionals to better serve the fact-checking community and find more effective ways to network, build capacity and contribute to public discourse. Starting with this edition, we are scaling up our efforts with the newsletter and working to bring you the developments from the fact-checking community every two weeks!
You are in good hands with our new community and impact manager, Enock Nyariki, who will be the new host of Factually until we welcome a reporter to the IFCN team to cover our ever-evolving fight against misinformation.
We wish you factual and accurate days ahead!
— Baybars Örsek, director of international programming at the Poynter Institute and director of the IFCN
Thank you Baybars for passing over the microphone to me.
My name is Enock Nyariki, and I recently joined the IFCN as its first-ever community and impact manager alongside our new program officer, Deirdre Gonsalves. |
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| For the subsequent few editions of this newsletter, before an IFCN reporter officially takes over, I’ll be sharing instances where fact-checking has a considerable impact and the unique projects in the fact-checking community. Let’s get to it. |
| The State of the Fact-Checkers report |
Nonprofit fact-checking organizations once again make up majority of the verified signatories to the IFCN’s Code of Principles, surpassing the for-profit initiatives, according to the annual State of the Fact-Checkers 2021 report.
The report, which covers January through December 2020, also showed that the rate of establishing new fact-checking organizations may be slowing down, although academic fact-checking initiatives went up by nearly 6%.
Regarding funding, the survey found that organizations with an annual budget between $50,000 and $100,000 went down by about 9% while those operating on a $100,000 to $500,000 budget continued to grow steadily.
Meta’s Third-Party Fact-Checking Program remains the main source of revenue for most of the verified signatories, despite ongoing diversification efforts. Income from donations, grants or membership ranks second, overall. |
| Fact-checking collaborations in the Philippines |
| Ahead of the May 9 elections in the Philippines, fact-checkers are making meaningful collaborations to address political misinformation. Verified signatory VERA Files has teamed up with 21 academic, media and civil society institutions to create Tsek.ph, a project meant to fight disinformation and provide the public with verified information. The initiative builds on its success as a collaborative project during the 2019 elections. |
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| Screenshot of Tsek.ph. |
With the support of over 100 organizations, Rappler, a verified signatory co-founded by Nobel laureate Maria Ressa, has created #FactsFirstPH. This coalition plans to “fight for facts” ahead of the May presidential elections.
Updates from the IFCN
Four new verified signatories have been added in the last month:
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For now, you can expect Factually to hit your inbox every two weeks. We look forward to sending you the latest fact-checking news on a weekly basis in the future.
Any corrections? Tips? We’d love to hear from you: Email me at [email protected].
Thank you for reading Factually. |
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Enock Nyariki
Community and Impact Manager
International Fact-Checking Network
@enocknyariki |
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