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] and in 2020 has become a verified signatory of its Code of Principles.[3]

The platform was founded by Alba Tobella and Lorenzo Marini, its current co-directors, together with Carola Solé, Roser Toll, Carina Bellver and Elisa Vivas, before the Barcelona municipal election campaign of 2019.[4][5] The project has received financial support from the Open Society Foundations since 2019.[6]

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. ↑ "IFCN Code of Principles". www.ifcncodeofprinciples.poynter.org. Retrieved 2021-04-06.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ "Qui som? Verificat". www.verificat.cat. Retrieved 2022-05-12.
  6. ↑ "Qui som?". www.verificat.cat. Retrieved 2021-04-06.
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