Il fact-checking ha un futuro?
Sat 20 April 2024
15:00
Free
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There have never been so many fact-checking organizations around the world, and yet disinformation still thrives. Once trendy, has fact-checking become outdated and exhausted? Should it radically change its way of doing things, be funnier, shorter, provocative, more attractive and less preachy? Are the big platforms still not doing enough to push it? Beyond the noise, is fact-checking effective? Moderated by Marie Bohner.
Organised in association with Agence France-Presse.
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Marie Bohner
Marie Bohner is Head of Development and Partnerships, Digital Investigations at Agence France-Presse, where she works on the development of the global digital investigation team. She manages partnerships with peer digital investigation organisations. She coordinated the CrossCheck France project in 2017 on behalf of First Draft, and was their global head of partnerships until 2021.
Lucas Graves
Lucas Graves is a Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication (SJMC). His research focuses on new organizations and practices in the emerging news ecosystem, and more broadly on the challenges digital networks pose to established media and political institutions. His book Deciding What’s True: The Rise of Political Fact-Checking in American Journalism came out in 2016 from Columbia University Press. Graves writes and speaks widely on topics relating to the news, politics, and new media, including political fact-checking, annotative journalism, net neutrality, and the open-source movement. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Columbia Journalism Review and the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University, as well as numerous scholarly journals including Journal of Communication, International Journal of Communication, and Journalism: Theory, Practice, Criticism. He is a co-author of The Story So Far: What We Know About the Business of Digital Journalism, ...
Lee Mwiti
Lee Mwiti is editor-in-chief of Africa Check, having joined in 2016 as deputy editor. He has experience of reporting Africa’s geopolitical economy, having previously been deputy editor at the pan-African focused Mail and Guardian Africa and a senior Africa-focused writer at the Nation Media Group – east and central Africa’s largest media house. Lee holds a masters degree in international studies from the University of Nairobi, a bachelor’s in biomedical sciences and a certificate qualification in journalism. He is a recovering pedant – and a failed polymath.
Tai Nalon
Tai Nalon is co-founder and the executive director of Aos Fatos, an award-winning organization based in Brazil focused on tech-driven journalism to combat disinformation. With 15 years in the journalism industry, she oversees a team of 20+ professionals, among journalists, developers, OSINT experts, and data scientists divided into three key areas: editorial, technology, and innovation. Tai has been recognized as one of the most innovative leaders in journalism by fundraising, developing, and managing creative projects that tackle misinformation while also publishing relevant investigations on the role digital platforms and politicians play in Brazilian democracy. She leads the team that won the 2020 Gabriel García Márquez Award on Innovation; the 2020 Digital Media LATAM for best digital project; the 2019 Claudio Weber Abramo Brazilian Data Journalism Awards on Innovation; and was a finalist for the 2019 Online Journalism Awards on General Excellence for micro-newsrooms. She work...