{"id":12291,"date":"2022-10-01T07:38:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T06:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/?p=12291"},"modified":"2022-09-30T23:55:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T22:55:44","slug":"dubawa-10-others-selected-for-ifcn-fact-checking-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/dubawa-10-others-selected-for-ifcn-fact-checking-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"DUBAWA, 10 others selected for IFCN fact-checking grant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poynter.org\/ifcn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN)<\/a> has awarded $450,000 in grant support to DUBAWA and 10 other fact-checking platforms across the globe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Through this funding, IFCN, in partnership with Meta, will provide funded fact-checking organisations with resources to fight against the spread of misinformation threatening more than 100 billion messages daily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">11 initiatives from eight nations including India, Spain, Nigeria, Georgia, Bolivia, Italy, Indonesia, and Jordan, are supported by the $450k award to be distributed among the selected fact-checking organisations for \u2018Spread the Facts Program.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Programme Manager at the IFCN,&nbsp; Ferdi \u00d6zsoy, in a post announcing the grant noted that with support from WhatsApp, the Spread the Facts Grant Program will give fact-checking organizations that are signatories to the IFCN code of principles and resources to de-escalate the harm of viral misinformation on WhatsApp and improve the quality of public debate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">IFCN stated that selections were made by a six-member committee made up of experts and educators in journalism, mass communications and media studies from around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Projects were evaluated based on the applicants&#8217; potential to show that they could expand the reach of fact-checking, improve its scope, effectiveness, or procedure, and introduce fresh approaches and technologies to combat disinformation to use technology to foster fact-checking collaboration across newsrooms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The grants are in two categories\u2013 launch track and scale track. Four organisations are in the launch category looking to establish a presence and\/or increase their fact-checking capacity on the WhatsApp Business App. Seven organizations in the scale track are already using the WhatsApp API and are focused on enhancing their fact-checking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Dubawa project<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the Launch track, DUBAWA was awarded $25,000 presented for its project, &#8220;Going Downstream: A WhatsApp Focused Fact-Checking Intervention.&#8221; The project is aimed at using WhatsApp to reach constituencies in Nigeria, Ghana, and Sierra Leone with two-minute audio fact-check reports in indigenous languages (Twi, Hausa, Krio, and Igbo).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The goal of DUBAWA&#8217;s project is to extend the reach of verified information to neglected constituencies in the fight against the spread of misinformation and disinformation on WhatsApp by using indigenous language audio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other organisations in the launch track include Factcheck.ge awarded $25,000 for FactCheck Georgia on WhatsApp; Bolivia Verifica awarded $25,000 for Truths \u2013 Sharing fact checks via WhatsApp; Fatabyyano awarded $25,000 for Misinformation on WhatsApp across MENA region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The scale track includes Liputan6 (Indonesia), Maldita.es (Spain), EFE Verifica (Spain), Facta.news (Italy), Boom (India),&nbsp; News checker in (India), and Vishvas News (India), all awarded $50,000 each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) has awarded $450,000 in grant support to DUBAWA and 10 other fact-checking platforms across the globe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"hannibal_claim_source":"","hannibal_source_label":"","hannibal_card_color":"blue","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_bluesky_share_type":"","_mastodon_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[1688],"tags":[],"verdict":[],"ppma_author":[3014],"class_list":["post-12291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R6dE-3cf","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":3014,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"muktar-balogun","display_name":"Muktar Balogun","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"","first_name":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IFCN-Integrity-Fund-April-2022-Option-13-1.jpg?fit=1500%2C844&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12293,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12291\/revisions\/12293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12291"},{"taxonomy":"verdict","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verdict?post=12291"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=12291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}