Brazilian journalist Cristina Tardáguila wants to build a global army of fact-checkers in Latin America and the Caribbean.“Anyone can become a fact-checker,” said Tardáguila, associate director of the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN).
“We can even take it one step further, everybody can and should become a fact-checker. Because fact-checkers will not solve this issue [of disinformation] by themselves. If the capacity of assessing the veracity of content isn’t widely spread in our society, then we are going to be in trouble,” Tardáguila said.
Cristina Tardáguila (Photo: Leo Aversa)
And she is in a hurry to form that army of fact-checkers because of the huge problems of disinformation surrounding the coronavirus pandemic.