TMaC AI + Election Series: Laura Zommer, FactChequeado

Come join TMaC, DCG and LASA to hear from Laura Zommer, CEO of FactChequeado. Factchequeado is an initiative created to counter mis and disinformation within the Hispanic and Latino communities in the United States.

She is a Knight Fellow with the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ), Ashoka Fellow and was for more than a decade the Executive Director of Chequeado, the first fact-checking organization in the Global South. She is also the creator of LatamChequea, the largest regional fact-checking network, which brings together more than 40 media organizations across 19 countries to fight disinformation in Latin America. She is chair of the board SembraMedia and member of La Silla Vacía (Colombia) and she was also a member of the advisory board for the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) from its creation to 2024. For her work as a journalist, she has received several awards, including the Gabriel García Márquez Award in the “Innovation” category from the Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericana (FNPI) and Ïn-dept journalism" from the Inter American Press Association.

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