AFP Fact Check
AFP Fact Check is a department within Agence France-Presse (AFP), a multi-lingual, multicultural news agency whose mission is to provide accurate, balanced and impartial coverage of news wherever and whenever it happens in the world on a continuous basis.
To tackle the spread of misinformation and disinformation online, AFP created a dedicated fact-checking and digital investigations team in 2017, inspired by our experience with the award-winning CrossCheck collaborative project for the French elections that year.
Since then, AFP Fact Check has grown to become the leading global fact-checking organisation, with more than 100 dedicated journalists in dozens of countries around the world.
AFP fact-checking journalists monitor online content in 26 languages, working with the agency’s local offices to ensure in-depth and accurate reporting that incorporates relevant cultural and political context.
https://factcheck.afp.com/Meet-team
AFP also collaborates with Meta-owned WhatsApp on tiplines to fight online disinformation in Brazil, Mexico, United States (in Spanish), France, Germany and India.
Meta
AFP has a commercial agreement with Meta through its Third Party Fact-Checking programme, in which Meta pays to use fact-checks from AFP on its social media platforms. As a partner, AFP’s fact-checking team investigates potentially false or misleading content flagged on Facebook and Instagram.
AFP also collaborates with Meta-owned WhatsApp on tiplines to fight online disinformation in Brazil, Mexico, United States (in Spanish), France, Germany and India.
TikTok
AFP, along with more than a dozen fact-checking organisations, is paid by TikTok in several countries in Asia and Oceania, Europe, the Middle East and Spanish-speaking Latin America to verify for internal moderation videos that potentially contain false information. The videos are removed by TikTok if the information is shown to be false by AFP teams.
European Union
Since 2021, AFP has been increasingly involved in collaborative projects between European media, researchers and other experts that are co-financed by the European Commission and other European institutions, to fight disinformation. In particular, AFP receives EU funding for its involvement in several fact-checking and research hubs belonging to the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO) network: DE FACTO for France, CEDMO for the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia, EDMO BELUX for Belgium and Luxembourg, HDMO-Lakmusz for Hungary, GADMO for Germany and Austria, BROD for Romania and Bulgaria, ADMO for Croatia and Slovenia, and MedMO for Greece, Cyprus and Malta.
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