Research on Fact-Checking and Investigative Journalism

Emircan Saç from Turkey will present the results from a study titled "Fact-Checking in Turkey: Comparing Government-Controlled and Independent Organizations During the 2023 Earthquake". Emircan examines the differences in claim selections, subject focus, and types of sources the different category of organizations prefer and consider reliable.Tamara Yesmin Toma from Dismislab in Bangladesh will present her research titled "Disinformation Got Smarter, So Did We: How Traditional Fact-Checking Evolved into Intelligence-Driven Investigations in Bangladesh." She examines Bangladesh’s disinformation ecosystem across an authoritarian-to-transitional period, revealing a multi-layer architecture in which manufactured expertise (fabricated academics), manufactured consensus (bot brigades), and a foreign veneer (ghost authors abroad) work in concert to legitimize power, stigmatize critics, and travel back into domestic discourse.🪑 All sessions are first-come, first-serve. That means people who arrive first will get seats. Be aware that some sessions are in relatively small rooms and they will fill up quickly.