On Feb. 28, the Association of Journalists of El Salvador (APES, for its acronym in Spanish) presented a summary of complaints of restrictions on journalism during electoral coverage. According to their records, there were at least 58 attacks against the press. Read original article (in Spanish)
"On Monday [Feb. 15], the Peruvian Press Council launched PerúCheck, a collaborative journalistic fact-checking tool to address the disinformation that has been occurring during this year's electoral campaign. The objective is for citizens to be able to vote with reliable information. The alliance is led by three national media outlets associated with the Peruvian Press […]
"Independent journalism initiatives in Brazil will monitor and map cases of violence in municipal elections in the country that take place on Nov. 15 and 29 (first and second rounds). They are: Agência Pública, Agência Saiba Mais, Amazônia Real, Gênero e Número, Marco Zero, Plural, Ponte Jornalismo, Portal Catarinas and Projeto #Colabora. Voters from all […]
"The amount of content to fact-check during the 2020 U.S. presidential campaign is so considerable that FactChat‘s Spanish-speaking allies, Univision and Telemundo, have increased the size of their teams to both translate their partners’ work into Spanish and produce their own articles. Nearly 30% of the fact-checks published by these two television channels for FactChat’s […]