The #CoronaVirusFacts database gathers all the lies that have been detected through the Alliance and will be updated daily with new publications. You can sort, filter, and search for content.
These works generated $2 million on WhatsApp and Facebook. The latest flash grant budget of up to $50,000 for fact-checkers fighting misinformation about the coronavirus. Below are the recipients of these grant programmes.
If you would like to search the COVID-19 database, please email info@ifcn. org to request the database, along with a summary of your research.
The IFCN has introduced a WhatsApp chatbot that allows English speakers to seamlessly access all the knowledge held in the CoronaVirusFacts knowledge base with just a few keystrokes. WhatsApp users just want to click on this link or send “hello” to 1 (727) 291 -2606 to access the bot’s homepage. There are also functions for other languages: Spanish, Hindi, Portuguese. They all use the same phone number.
You can also locate fact-checks through the alliance on this Twitter list. Note: Fact checks are not translated.
As of June 18, 2020, #CoronaVirusFacts Alliance includes:
(99 members: 15min. lt, 20 Minutes Fake off, AAP FactCheck, AFP, AfricaCheck, Agência Lupa, Agencia Ocote, Animal Político, Annie Lab, Aos Fatos, Bolivia Verifica, BOOM FactCheck, BuzzFeed Japan, Check Your Fact, CheckNews, Chequeado, Colombiacheck, Congo Check, Convoca. pe, Correctiv, Décrypteurs – Radio-Canada, Delfi Melo Detektorius (Lie Detector), Demagog, Detector de rumeurs, Deutsche Presse-Agentur, Digiteye India, Doğruluk Payı, Dubawa, Ecuador Chequea, EFE Verifica, Efecto Cocuyo, Effecinque – SkyTg24, El Surtidor, Ellinika Hoaxes, Estadão Verifica, FactCheck Georgia, Factcheck. kz, FactCheckNI, FactCheck. org, Factcheck. Vlaanderen, FactCrescendo, Factly, Factnameh, Faktabaari/FactBar, Faktograf, Fatabyyano, France 24 Observers, franceinfo, Full Fact, GhanaFact, India Today, INFACT, Istinomer, JTBC news, Källkritikbyrån, La Nación, La Voz de Guanacaste, La Silla Vacía, LeadStories, Les Décodeurs, Maldita. es, MediaWise, Misbar, Mygopen, Myth Detector, Newschecker, Newsmeter. in, Ne w sMobile, Newtral. es, Nieuwscheckers, Observador, OjoPúblico, Open, Pagella Politica, Periodismo de Barrio, PesaCheck, Poligrafo, PolitiFact, Rappler, Raskrinkavanje, Re:Check, Salud con lupa, Science Feedback, Spondeo Media, StopFake. org, Sure And Share Center MCOT, Taiwan FactCheck Center, TEMPO, Teyit, The Quint, TheJournal. ie, TjekDet. dk, VERA Files, Verified, Verificador de La República, Vishvas News, Vistinomer, VoxCheck and Washington Post Fact-Checker)
Tap info@ifcn. org to register for the CoronaVirusFacts Alliance.
All organizations that have joined the alliance are established fact-checkers, whether they are verified signatories to the IFCN Code of Principles or organizations that have received support through one of IFCN’s verified signatories. One-person transactions were accepted.