Verificat

Verificat is a fact-checking project created in April 2019 to combat misinformation in Catalonia.[1] Created as an independent non-profit, the project was inspired by the platforms of the Poynter Institute's International Fact-Checking Network.[2] Verificat publishes copyleft-licensed content, in order that other journalists can make free use the content they produce.

Journalists Alba Tobella, Carola Solé and Roser Toll — having studied at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and with experience as Latin America correspondents for Agence France-Presse, the Associated Press and the Agencia EFE — began the project before the Barcelona municipal election campaign of 2019.[3] The project has the support of Catalonia's journalists association, Col·legi de Periodistes de Catalunya and Barcelona's private Ramon Llull University.[1] In addition to checking the accuracy of reported facts, Verificat also has a data journalism team and a technology team.[3] The data experts are the Storydata collective led by Eli Vivas and Carina Bellver, and the technology branch is led by Lorenzo Marini, founder of the startup Precept.[1]

References
  1. Grego Casanova, ‘Verificat’, la primera plataforma de verificació de dades de Catalunya (“The first data verification platform in Catalonia,” in Catalan), 4 April 2019. Accessed 3 October 2020.
  2. EFE, Cataluña estrena ‘Verificat’, su propia plataforma contra las ‘Fake News’ (“Catalonia launches ‘Verificat’, its own platform to counter ‘Fake News’,” in Spanish), 2 April 2019. Accessed 3 October 2020.
  3. Neix Verificat, la primera plataforma de ‘fact-checking’ en català (“Verificat founded, the first “fact-checking” platform in Catalan”), 2 April 2019, Barcelona TV channel Betevé. Accessed 3 October 2020.
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