International Fact-Checking Day

This Sunday, April 2, is the International Day of Fact-Checking, a date that functions as a call to action when it comes to checking the veracity of a statement or a source. This is why Google introduced new ways to verify the information that appears in the Search Engine. They are:-Learn more with About this result, now available globally, to help people evaluate information and understand where it comes from.-Detectable information gaps, applicable for cases where there isn’t much information to show in a search, or because results are changing rapidly. Notices of lack of quality information will be available in new languages in the coming months, including German, French, Italian, Spanish and Japanese.-Investment in data verification and media literacy by Chequeado in Latin America. With this initiative, 50 checkers from the region and journalism professors are acquiring fact-checking tools for their teaching, both necessary to train other journalists and students in speech verification and disinformation. To date, more than 1000 fact-checkers have been trained in four countries in the region, and in Argentina there are already 15 universities and more than 320 students trained.-Last year, a $13.2 million grant was awarded to the International Fact-Checking Network to launch a new Global Fact-Checking Fund. It will open in the coming days and will support more than 130 fact-checking organizations from 65 countries covering more than 80 languages.

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