Will the future of fact-checking flourish or founder? 2025 marks a new turning point

Will the future of fact-checking flourish or founder? 2025 marks a new turning point

Now is the time for action to protect the work that holds the line on reality.

On the occasion of the International Fact-Checking Day, Angie Drobnic Holan, the director of the International Fact-Checking Network, IFCN, has published this article which we reproduce below. Every year, on April 2, fact-checkers celebrate the International Fact-Checking Day. It is usually a moment of celebration, fun, even a bit of irreverence. This year, for example, British actor Stephen Fry is congratulating the fact-checkers and asking peo…