2023 in review

During 2023, innovation, collaboration, technology and artificial intelligence were the cornerstones on which we built our fight against disinformation.

Here we have an overview of what we did and the impact we achieved with your help, that of our allies and also our donors and supporters.

Innovation Collaboration Technology and AI

In addition, presidential elections dominated the whole year . In this context, we fostered initiatives, alliances and projects to raise public debate, provide more information with data and fights electoral disinformation. We invite you to learn more about them.

2023 elections

Innovation

Collaboration Technology and AI

Verso al mazo

In an attempt to provide creative and didactic resources for training on information verification in electoral contexts, we created the first educational and collaborative board game for journalists within the framework of Reverso.

12

Provinces

14

Trainings

+600

Journalists trained

Disinformation Revealed

To enhance our impact in the importance of misinformation awareness and to involve more people in our efforts to stop its circulation, we developed this interactive and itinerant module that we present in different public spaces to interact with the community.

+2200

Participants

New formats for social media

In order to communicate with our community through new formats that attract more people to the challenge of improving the quality of public debate and fighting misinformation, we are continuously testing out alternative ways of delivering our content.

2x format

Fast-paced video explaining or debunking a misinformation. Optimized for TikTok and Reels audiences.

Interactive carousels for Instagram

We use Instagram galleries to integrate infographics, text, audio and video into a new narrative.

Illustrated and animated electoral prebunking

Graphic pieces in order to prevent electoral disinformation in advance. Together with a designer, we created characters and situations empathic to the reader.

Electoral visual guides

Graphic infographic pieces related to the most frequent uncertainties about the 2023 elections.

Infographics and real-time data of the presidential debates

We analyze and provide speech analytics for each candidate, taking into account different variables.

IA to summarize debates

We conducted tests on the use of AI to summarize and show debates in an agile way.

Elections

5 facts about the candidates for President

New Chequeado Podcast

In order to reach new audiences and tailor the conversation spaces to the current demand, we evolved towards a weekly "El podcast de Chequeado". We share the main checks, contexts and misinforming contents of current affairs with a greater narrative insight.

Trending panel

To closely follow the most used words in headlines and media, the most tweeted topics and the most repeated searches over the last hour or 7 days, we developed and made accessible to the community a dashboard to follow what is being talked about in the public agenda, all in the same place.

Rent calculator

In order to facilitate the adjustment of rental prices, we have developed a calculator accessible to the entire community that updates the values according to the current laws in force.

Weekly data alert

In order to know when any of the more than one thousand official databases hosted by the Government in datos.gob.ar is created, deleted or updated, and to avoid having to check them one by one, we designed an alert system to which the community has access by e-mail subscription.

Toolbox for journalists

To simplify access to useful digital tools for journalists and communication professionals, we created a web space that collects and organizes resources and applications in areas such as audio, video, multimedia content editing, social media management, data visualization, fact checking, among others.

Prebunking

To identify what kind of misinformation is circulating, we analyze trends, and generate content and resources available to the community that alert them about this false content.

Impact automation

To measure part of the impact of what we do and take that information to learn and further enhance our efforts against misinformation, we created a tool that allows us to automate the loading of the impacts resulting from Google alerts on mentions and/or publications related to our projects.

+2200

automatic alerts in the last 6 months.

Collaboration

Innovation Technology and AI

Reverso

To fight disinformation during the electoral campaign, we promoted the 3rd edition of the most ambitious collaborative journalistic project in the country, with the participation of media from all over Argentina (print, digital, radio and TV).

120

Participant media

+180

Contents produced

1000

Republications of fact-checks

LatamChequea

In order to further consolidate the regional network of checkers and build together knowledge and actions against disinformation, we promoted an analysis and research agenda among LatamChequea members that included, among others, gender issues in the ICFJ Disarming Disinformation project. In addition, new organizations joined the network.

19

Allied countries

40

Participating organizations

Fact checking trainers network

In order to train journalism and communication professors in teaching fact checking, we continued for the second consecutive year to strengthen the network in the region.

6

Participating countries

66

Teachers implemented what they learned in the classroom

1335

Students trained

Third National Meeting of MIL: education and digital gap in times of disinformation

In order to share work strategies on Media and Information Literacy y and critical thinking in the classroom, we organized the Third National Meeting for teachers and members of the educational community within the framework of the AMI World Week.

Factchequeado

To increase the impact of the collaborative project, coordinated by Chequeado and Maldita, to fight disinformation in Spanish that affects Latino communities in the U.S.:

We won NYU's AI & Local Challenge to develop a tool to improve our detection of disinformation narratives.
We renewed the support of the Google News Initiative (GNI) to produce text, audio and video content.
We received an institutional grant from the Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI) to produce a bilingual guide for journalists.
We started a project with TikTok to produce videos in Spanish on the platform
We with the support of the Open Society Foundation (OSF) to partner with organizations to produce and distribute visual pieces to counteract misinformation narratives about the voting system and the electoral process in the run-up to 2024.

20

U.S. states + Puerto Rico

60

Media partners

+1100

Pieces of content produced

Technology
and AI

Innovation Collaboration

Live transcription

To leverage the use of technology in the fight against misinformation, we enhanced the functionality of our live transcriber of speeches, debates and other interventions in the public conversation, and made it accessible to the community.

Chatbot

To better meet the requests of our community and provide better interaction tools, we expanded the capabilities of our chatbot with more content available and more functionalities.

~2000

Conversations per month with our community

Chequeabot expands

Chequeabot continues to broaden its international impact to provide checkers around the world with tools to accelerate their capabilities against misinformation.

This year Verificat and Maldita, fact checking organizations from Spain, chose it to provide a fast response to their information verification needs.

Transcriptor

We have renewed the Transcriptor. We redesign it and also added new functionalities: it now allows you to transcript videos in other languages, as long as they have automatic subtitles.

+4 million

transcribed videos

Plus:

Program on technology and rights

In order to promote investigative journalism on technology and rights in Argentina, together with CELE, we developed a program of 6 trainings and talks for journalists aimed at providing tools to cover and analyze threats and opportunities in the field of digital rights and Internet governance.

Disinformation about the war in Ukraine

To strengthen capabilities in the fight against disinformation related to the War in Ukraine, we performed an assessment of the disinformation that circulated and based on that we developed a handbook with recommendations for action against disinformation and four specific tools to identify it (CrowdTangle, TweetDeck, Google and InVid/WeVerify).

Disinformation and AI: ideas for high school classrooms

To promote the critical use of artificial intelligence in schools, we produced a resource to help teachers take the first steps, as part of the course "Media and Information Literacy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (AI)" of the National Institute for Teacher Training.

Didactic sequences and publications for schools

In order to promote Media and Information Literacy in schools, we produced didactic sequences and reflections that help teachers to implement different activities.

Resources for journalists on how to report on elections

In order to provide journalists with resources to counteract misinformation and contribute to election coverage, together with Factchequeado and the International Journalists' Network (IJNet), we produced a special with 12 articles and 12 videos in Spanish, English and Portuguese. In addition, as part of the Portalcheck project, we produced a series of guides and masterclasses for journalists, teachers and electoral authorities.

Misinformative Narratives on Environmental Issues

In order to contribute to curb the current and future circulation of misinforming narratives on climate change, we worked to debunk environmental narratives from an audiovisual approach and requests for access to public information, which included a series of face-to-face trainings in several provinces of the country.

Fact-checks at the IDEA Colloquium

In order to cooperate with the quality of the public debate of the entrepreneurial sector, we checked and verified part of the content of the Idea 2023 Colloquium, and developed explainers on the fiscal axes that shaped the event.

#VerificáAntes DeCompartir

In order to raise awareness among young people about the dangers of misinformation, we launched a communication campaign on social networks together with Meta, Unicef and Faro Digital that aimed to raise awareness about the importance of verifying the content that circulates and encourage a more empathic online community.

Campaign against electoral disinformation

In order to raise awareness in the community about the risk of electoral disinformation, we carried out -within the framework of Reverso- the "Campaign against disinformation" together with the agency BBDO. The action was based on a web app from which, by scanning the faces of some of the candidates, visitors could see the candidates -through artificial intelligence- denying disinformation that affected them and their opponents, and inviting them to follow Reverso.

Educational research on skills

To evaluate the impact of a series of educational activities, we implemented - within the framework of the Covid and social vulnerability project - workshops in schools where we provided students with tools to detect and combat misinformation related to COVID-19 vaccines.

Electoral disinformation and gender

To investigate how disinformation exploits gender bias to expand, we analyzed together with ELA (Equipo Latinoamericano de Justicia y Género) electoral disinformation in that perspective, and produced notes and podcasts on the subject.

2023 elections

Innovation Collaboration Technology and AI

#ChequeoEnVivo - Live fact-checking

In order to contribute to improve the quality of public debate during the election period, we produced a collective live coverage of the 3 presidential debates during which we verified the candidates' phrases, the most repeated words and the amount of checkable data provided by each one of them. In addition, we analyzed the platforms proposed by the candidates Javier Milei and Sergio Massa in the last debate.

24

explaining pieces

49

fact-checks

Elections’ Special edition

In order to provide the community with useful information related to the elections, we developed a dedicated special that concentrated checks, explainers, dates to keep in mind and resources for teachers and journalists, with daily updates.

Mileipedia

In order to provide the community with information about the new government, we developed the "Mileipedia", a platform with verified contents about Javier Milei's government, his articulation with the Congress, appointments, checked data about his main public policies, the meaning of the terms that shape his public discourse and checks on his claims and misinformation, among other topics.

Reverso

To fight disinformation during the electoral campaign, we promoted the 3rd edition of the most ambitious collaborative journalistic project in the country, with the participation of media from all over Argentina (print, digital, radio and TV).

120

Participating media

+180

Contents produced

1000

Republications of fact-checks

Campaign against electoral disinformation

In order to raise awareness in the community about the risk of electoral disinformation, we carried out -within the framework of Reverso- the "Campaign against disinformation" together with the agency BBDO. The action was based on a web app from which, by scanning the faces of some of the candidates, visitors could see the candidates -through artificial intelligence- denying disinformation that affected them and their opponents, and inviting them to follow Reverso.

2023 in review

Innovation

Verso al mazo

New formats for social media

Prebunking

Impact automation

Collaboration

Fact checking trainers network

Third National Meeting of MIL: education and digital gap in times of disinformation

Technology and AI

Chequeabot expands

Plus:

Program on technology and rights

Misinformative Narratives on Environmental Issues

#VerificáAntes DeCompartir

Educational research on skills

2023 elections

Campaign against electoral disinformation

Team

Technology
and AI