This International Validation Alliance (IFCN) wants to help improve the quality of public debate in one of the world’s most popular news outlets. To that end, Thursday (7) announced a new grant for fact-checkers interested in development. fighting disinformation Whats up.
Operating in partnership with Meta, 800 thousand USD for the business, equivalent to R$3.7 million at current price. The amount will be shared between organizations and consortia that have signed the Business Conduct Principles. IFCNIt will act by creating new mechanisms to reduce fake news sharing in practice.
According to IFCN program manager Ferdi Özsoy, the initiative aims to “mitigate the harm of viral misinformation” promoted through the messenger, which is used by more than 2 billion people worldwide. Each candidate can receive up to US$50k (R$235,000) to develop the new project. fact check.
Those interested in building information verification tools on WhatsApp should demonstrate its ability to deliver solutions to more people and increase the scale, efficiency, and workflow of verification. Facilitating collaboration between newsrooms through technology is another requirement.
Applications open until May
for inscriptions IFCN grant program Available until May 13 on the News Verification Network website. Recorded projects will be reviewed by a six-member committee consisting of experts and educators in the fields of journalism, mass communication and media studies.
Names of selected organizations will be announced during the conference. Global Fact 9It will take place from 22-25 June. The winning bidders will have the opportunity to detail their projects in the next edition of the event in 2023.
Source: Tec Mundo
