Fact-checking in Latin America: features and challenges
This article is by LSE MSc student Ariel Riera. Ariel was a Chevening Scholar 2017 and worked as a journalist at Chequeado from 2012 to 2017 In 2003 Brooks Jackson launched FactCheck.org, giving the name to a fact-checking style of reporting. This genre of journalism, understood briefly as testing factual claims in order to make public discourse accountable and more accurate, has been growing continuously. […]
