Registration

Opening Remarks

Baybars Örsek, Director | International Fact-Checking Network
Bill Adair, Director | Duke Reporters Lab
Stephen Buckley, Board of Trustees Member | Poynter Institute & Associate Dean | Aga Khan University Graduate School of Media and Communications

Keynote Speach

Peter Cunliffe-Jones, Founder |Africa Check & Senior Adviser | IFCN

Show & Tell Session

Katie Sanders, Managing Editor & Aaron Sharockman, Executive Director | Politifact
Solia Kenya, Fact-Checker | PesaCheck
Jency Jacob, Managing Editor | Boom Live
Natália Leal, Director of Content | Agência Lupa
Pablo M. Fernandez, Director of Innovation | Chequeado
Bill Frischling, Founder | FactSquared

Awards Presentations

Candidates will present their works for the awards selections

Coffe Break

Fact-Checking as a Tool for Holding the Powerful in the Society Accountable | Panel

Tom Rosenstiel, Executive Director | American Press Insitute (Moderator)
Batuhan Ersun, Executive Director | Doğruluk Payı
Gemma Mendoza, Head of Research, Strategy, and Partnerships | Rappler Inc.
Govindraj Ethiraj, Founder | Spending & Policy Research Foundation
Tanya Pampalone, Managing Editor | Global Investigative Journalism Network

The Future of ClaimReview | Featured Talk

Bill Adair, Director | Duke Reporters Lab
Joel Luther, ClaimReview Program Manager | Duke Reporters Lab

Lunch sponsored by ClaimReview

Tools for Collaboration Among Fact-Checkers | Panel

Cristina Tardáguila, Associate Director | International Fact-Checking Network (Moderator)
Laura Zommer, Director | Chequeado
Giovanni Zagni, Director | Pagella Politica
Yvonne Chua, Coordinator | tsek.ph
Pauline Moullot, Fact-Checker | Libération/CheckNews

Impact of Fact-Checks on Reader Understanding in the Real World | Research

Jessica Collier, Research Associate| Center for Media Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin

The workshop will share the findings of the A/B test in Facebook run by five fact-checking organizations and the Center for Media Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin

Code of Principles | Workshop

Baybars Örsek, Director | International Fact-Checking Network
Peter Cunliffe-Jones, Senior Adviser | International Fact-Checking Network

The workshop will serve as an opportunity to get feedback from existing & aspiring signatories on the current state of IFCN's Code of Principles and share the ongoing review process.

Mapping the Fact-Checking Educational Activities | Workshop

Hache Ariel Merpert, Coordinator of Education | Chequeado

The workshop will be a debrief of educational activities on fact-checking around the world.

The Reliability Gap: Identifying the Real Experts

Krista Kapralos, News Director | Global Press Journal

This workshop will offer tools for identifying local expertise and using it to verify big data and other information that is often inaccurately applied by news organizations

Future of IFCN | Assembly

Baybars Örsek, Director | International Fact-Checking Network

Introduction to Data Visualization (Part 1) | Workshop

Alastair Otter, Training Director for Europe, and Africa | Global Investigative Journalism Network

The workshop will offer introductionary skills on data visualization

Intro to ClaimReview | Workshop

Bill Adair, Director | Duke Reporters Lab

The workshop will offer participants the opportunity to get acquainted with how ClaimReview works and how can it help fact-checkers to become more visible in the digital landscape

It´s Quiztime - Hands-on Verification Challenges | Workshop

Julia Bayer, Social Media | Deutsche Welle

This interactive session will help participants to test their verification skills

Facebook & African Partners

Africa Check
Dubawa
PesaCheck
AFP

New Solutions to Misinformation | Panel

Mark Stencel, Co-Director | Duke Reporters Lab (Moderator)
Gülin Çavuş, Editor-in-Chief | teyit.org
Hannah Ojo, TruthBuzz Fellow | International Center for Journalists
Mevan Babakar, Head of Automated Fact-Checking | Full Fact
Tai Nalon, Director | Aos Fatos

Community Building and Sustainability in Fact-Checking | Featured Talk

Clara Jimenez Cruz, Co-Founder, and Head of Project | Maldita.es

Show & Tell Session

Mumbere Katsuva Rodriguez, Editor | Congo Check
Ieva Ivanauskaitė, Head of Communications | Debunk.eu
Derek Thompson, Editor-in-Chief | France 24 Observers
Alberto Puoti, Supervising Author and Producer | Rai
Maarten Schenk, Writer & Chief Technologist | Lead Stories
Ika Ningtyas Unggrain, Fact-Checker | TEMPO
Richard Zack, Founder & CEO | Our.News

Coffe Break

2019 Fact Forward Fund Winner | Featured Talk

TBA

Fact-Checking African Elections: The Challenge in the Absence of Reliable Data | Panel

Kate Wilkinson, Acting Chief Deputy Editor | Africa Check (Moderator)
Eric Mugendi, Managing Editor | PesaCheck
Mumbere Katsuva Rodriguez, Editor | Congo Check
Tendai Dube, Fact-Checker for South Africa | Agence France-Presse

Lunch

The Truth or the President: Do Americans Believe in Trump? | Featured Talk

Glenn Kessler, Editor, and Chief Writer, The Fact Checker | Washington Post

The Rise of Health & Science Fact-Checking and Lessons for Other Topical Areas | Panel

Baybars Örsek, Director | International Fact-Checking Network (Moderator)
Angie Holan, Editor | Politifact
David Ajikobi, Nigeria Editor | Africa Check
Emmanuel Vincent, Director | Science Feedback
Eugene Kiely, Director | FactCheck.org

Supporting Fact-Checkers in Hostile Legal Environments | Workshop

Padraig Hughes, Legal Director | Media Legal Defense Initiative
Lucy Freeman, CEO | Media Legal Defense Initiative

The workshop will bring fact-checkers and the representatives of the Media Legal Defense Initiative to exchange experiences and needs to protect fact-checkers in hostile legal environments

Misinformation Law Round-up | Workshop

Daniel Funke, Reporter | International Fact-Checking Network

The workshop will offer participants the platform to follow the regulative actions around the world against misinformation

How Automation can Help Your Fact-Checking | Workshop

Duke Reporters Lab

This workshop will share the most recent developments in automated fact-checking with the participants

Using Tools for Fact Checking as Part of an Alliance | Workshop

Jennifer Mathieu, Chief Technologist for Social Analytics and Integrity | MITRE

This workshop will help participants to be better informed about the tools that they can use in their collaborative actions

Expanding the Audience for Fact-Checking | Featured Talk

Matt Riley, TruthBuzz Fellow | International Center for Journalists Astudestra Ajengrastri, TruthBuzz Fellow | International Center for Journalists

DEGA - Publishing Platform for Fact-Checkers | Workshop

Shashi Kiran Desheti, CTO | Factly
Rakesh Kumar Dubbudu, CEO | Factly

This workshop will offer participants a CMS tool that can be tailored to institutional needs

Tools for Data Visualization (Part 2) | Workshop

Alastair Otter, Training Director for Europe, and Africa | Global Investigative Journalism Network

The workshop will share some of the tools that fact-checkers can use to visualize their data in their reportings

It´s Quiztime - Hands-on Verification Challenges | Workshop

Julia Bayer, Social Media | Deutsche Welle

This interactive session will help participants to test their verification skills
*Participants who have registered for the session on June 19 do not need to register for this one

Harassment and Trolling as a Result of Fact-Checking | Workshop

Kate Wilkinson, Acting Chief Deputy Editor | Africa Check
Mevan Babakar, Head of Automated Fact-Checking | Full Fact

This workshop will share stories on harassment and trolling as a result of Fact-Checking

IFCN Advisory Board Meeting | Closed Meeting

Baybars Örsek, Director | International Fact-Checking Network

Awards Ceremony

Closing Remarks

Baybars Örsek, Director | International Fact-Checking Network
Bill Adair, Director | Duke Reporters Lab

Networking Reception co-hosted by Facebook

Workshop 17, Watershed, 17 Dock Rd, V & A Waterfront, Cape Town

Community Review Deep Dive | Closed Meeting

Closed meeting with select participants and Facebook on the community review concept

Fact-Checking in the Global South | Research

Zahedur Arman, Founding President | BD FactCheck

Fake news spread in developing countries as fast as they do in developed countries with increasing penetration of the internet and social media. However, fighting fake news is more difficult in developing countries where resources and necessary technologies are scarce. This study provides an understanding of the challenges of various fact-checking organizations face in four South Asian countries–Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka, and in the United States. In-depth interviews were conducted with senior editors of 10 fact- checking initiatives. Challenges identified include lack of resources, technologies, and political pressure in developing countries. Fact-checking organizations have one problem that exists in developed countries as well. That is the lack of a sustainable business model. Most of these organizations depend on donations and are unable to make long term plans.

A Blockchain-Based Solution for a Global Fact-Check Registry | Workshop

Walid Al-Saqaf, Senior Lecturer in Journalism and Media Technology | Södertörn University

The aim is to present our work at Södertörn University on blockchain and journalism (coming up in a Routledge book soon) and reflecting on how we plan to integrate blockchain technology into our ongoing project "Fact-check Assistant", which has completed its first stage (see screenshot). Fact-check Assistant is a web application that allows partnering Swedish newsrooms to use systematize and streamline internal fact-checks and share them internally and externally.