Partnerships and Collaborations
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IFCN
As a IFCN-certified fact checker, VishvasNews stories are featured in the list of CoronaVirusFacts/DatosCoronaVirus Alliance Database on Poynter website. The database unites more than 100 fact-checkers in 45 countries and includes articles published in at least 15 languages. Vishvas News is also part of the Fact Check database
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Facebook
Facebook has provided a dashboard where team members can see what content users have flagged as potentially false on FB.
- The Facebook dashboard lists down all the flagged posts along with its combined views (virality) along with the date it was shared.
- The content is categorized in the form of: Articles, images, videos and texts
- The content is also bifurcated language-wise: Assamese, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu, Not specified
- The dashboard also provides topic-wise bifurcation of content: Health & Medical, Music & Audio, Fitness & Workout, Food & Drink, Fashion & Style, Business, Finance & Economics etc.
- It also includes a ‘Trending event’ category. For example: It displays COVID-19 in the trending event and displays all COVID-19-related flagged posts.
The fact check claim is picked on the following 3 basis:
1. The Virality of the claim
2. Is the claim verifiable or not
3. The impact of the claim on general public
After the post is fact-checked by Vishvas News, it is rated as False, Partly False, False Headline, Not Rated on FB dashboard. -
WHO
- Vishvas News is also associated with World Health Organization (WHO) officials through a WhatsApp group.
- WHO India representative answers our queries in the WA group
- Whenever any post is attributed to WHO we directly reach out to WHO by sharing the claim. WHO reverts by giving the statement on the same.
- Even if any other health-related post needs to be verified, WHO actively reverts through Whatsapp. -
Whatsapp
Vishvas News is a part of the world's top-rated fact-checkers on WhatsApp FAQ page to help users to counter COVID-related and other misinformation. https://faq.whatsapp.com/126787958113983
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IAMAI
Vishvas News conducted a year-long training programme for 20 journalists from 10 major Indian news organisations, selected as fellows, to equip them with the knowledge and skills required for fact-checking and news verification. The programme supported by the Internet and Mobile Association of India or IAMAI and Meta, ran from December 2021 and culminated with a day-long conference at the Meta office on November 30, 2022.
The 20 fellows were drawn from 10 shortlisted organisations: The Indian Express, The Hindu, Hindustan Times, Asianet news, Manorama Online, Lokmat, Deccan Herald, Press Trust of India, Prajavani and Mathrubhumi. -
Twitter
Twitter featured Vishvas News COVID-related fact checks on it’s latest fact checks page.
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Internews
Featured Vishvas News on its social media rumour bulletin
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GNI
Vishvas News team has trainers from GNI training network
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Instagram
Facebook has provided a dashboard where team members can see what content users have flagged as potentially false on FB. Vishvas News team rates the fake Instagram stories on Facebook dashboard and follows the same process as that of Facebook posts ratings
