The COP 28 Fact-Checking Lab is a collaborative experiment to identify and debunk disinformation spread both inside and outside the event, where around 200 countries will try to reach agreements to contain the rise in temperature and address the now inevitable changes in the climate.
The event is organised by the fact-checking group Arab Fact-Checkers Network (AFCN), which belongs to the investigative journalism network in the Arab world Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ), and will be held on 29 and 30 November in Amman, the capital of Jordan.
It will bring together members of the Arab organisations Tahaqaq 360 (Lebanon), FactYemen (Yemen), Misbar (Jordan) and ARIJ itself, as well as the European organisations Demagog (Poland), 15min (Lithuania), Myth Detector (Georgia), Logically Facts (Ireland) and Maldita.es (Spain). The journalists will produce at least two articles a day, to be published in Arabic and English, as well as translations into the participants’ respective languages.
The Fact-Checking Lab will precede the ARIJ16 Annual Forum, the 16th annual congress on investigative journalism in the Arab world, which will take place from 1 to 3 December in the Jordanian capital.