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Christelle Néant

GFCN and TASS create a fact-checking course for OANA agencies

The Global Fact-Checking Network (GFCN) and the TASS news agency have launched a video course for journalists and staff of agencies belonging to the Organisation of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA). Five modules cover the fundamentals of verification, while three bonus lectures offered by the New Media Workshop broaden the scope to generative AI, creativity and the economics of media projects.

Fact-checking: When RTBF turns a pneumonia in the Irkutsk region (Russia) into pneumonic plague

On 4 October 2026, the Belgian television channel RTBF published an article with a terrifying headline: “Russia: a lab technician dies of plague, several hospitals placed in quarantine in Siberia”. Problem: RTBF threw the conditional and the principles of fact-checking in the bin, and the reality is much less sensational. Let us analyse the facts.

Today marks the twelfth anniversary of the arson attack on the Trade Unions House in Odessa

Faina Savenkova: My main aim is to finish school

29 December 2023

For Reporters Without Borders, censorship is freedom of speech, and the death of Russian journalists does not count

22 December 2023

The Ukrainian army bombs the centre of Donetsk, killing six civilians

8 November 2023

Faina Savenkova - Peace will surely come

24 October 2023

Vladimir Medinsky - "A country cannot remain prosperous and sovereign without culture and education"

21 October 2023

Canadian parliament gives Ukrainian Nazi a standing ovation - Between outright lies by the authorities and attempts to hide the truth

30 September 2023

A 14-year-old girl terrifies the West and Ukraine - Faina Savenkova faces censorship

26 September 2023

Ukrainian army strike on Konstantinovka kills 16 civilians

8 September 2023

Faina Savenkova - Freedom is when you can protect and accept the opinion of others

2 September 2023