LatamChequea Supports Meta’s Oversight Board’s Warnings Regarding Community Notes and Calls for the Continuation of Fact-Checking
The network, which brings together 46 Latin American fact-checkers, agrees that community notes are insufficient in contexts of widespread disinformation.
Discover Check Lab!
The new platform for understanding disinformation
Check Lab is a resource designed to address the disinformation ecosystem with clarity and scientific backing. It is a constantly updated guide to understanding the phenomenon through data and critical analysis.
Major Disinformation Trends in Latin America
Every quarter, we publish a list of the most significant pieces of disinformation that have circulated in the region and analyze their format, the social media platforms on which they were shared, and the actors responsible for spreading them.
The Disinformers: Who Are the People Spreading Disinformation in Latin America and How Do They Operate
The Disinformers is a series of journalistic investigations into various actors who have spread misinformation in the region, with the aim of revealing the narratives and patterns behind specific instances of misinformation.
About LatamChequea
The Latin American fact-checking network
LatamChequea is a network of fact-checkers from across Latin America, the United States, Spain and Portugal. It began in 2014 as an in-person meeting and currently brings together 46 media outlets from 20 countries.
The goal of this network, created and led by Chequeado, is to share experiences and tools that help improve the quality of public debate and foster collaboration among various media outlets in the region to increase the impact of fact-checking and the fight against disinformation on our continent.
Journalism
Online media outlets not only fact-check public discourse, verify viral content, and produce explanatory pieces on complex topics, but they also produce investigative reports such as “Los Desinformantes,” a special series coordinated by LatamChequea on various actors who have spread disinformation in the region. In addition, the network produces reports on the main trends in disinformation across the region.
Education
LatamChequea Education is the network’s working group on educational topics. It aims to strengthen the educational capabilities of fact-checkers in the region and expand Media and Information Literacy (MIL) in Latin America, for example by disseminating various educational resources created by fact-checkers.
Innovation
LatamChequea Innovation is the network’s working group on innovation, technology, and artificial intelligence. The goal of this area of work is to strengthen the technological capabilities of fact-checkers in the region through the exchange of knowledge, experimentation, and collaboration among fact-checking organizations and other key actors.
Report on disinformation regulation in Latin American countries
Different countries in the region have adopted various strategies to address the issue of misinformation, and in this report we aim to summarize the main regulations in each country.
46
FACT-CHECKING
ORGANIZATIONS
20
PARTNER
COUNTRIES
+128M
FOLLOWERS ON SOCIAL MEDIA (COMBINED AUDIENCE)
+27K
STUDENTS AND JOURNALISTS TRAINED IN FACT-CHECKING PER YEAR
+25K
FACT-CHECKS, VERIFICATIONS, AND EXPLANATORY PIECES PER YEAR
+150
AWARDS WON
Fact-checkers
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