Factchequeado Recognized as a Signatory of the International Fact-Checking Network’s Code of Principles

As of October 2023, Factchequeado is a member of the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN). This membership commits us to adhere to a Code of Principles, ensuring transparency in methodology, an open and honest correction policy, and impartiality. We underwent an application process, an evaluation carried out by an independent advisor and the favorable vote of the IFCN Advisory Council to validate our commitment against disinformation. Our co-founders are members of that Advisory Council and abstained from the Factchequeado vote due to their conflict of interest. Currently we are 112 certified organizations around the world.

What does this mean?The IFCN is dedicated to excellence in journalistic verification processes, ensuring global teams adhere to ethical principles guaranteeing the impartiality and professionalism of their fact-checks.

In the U.S., 15 entities have signed the Code: AP Fact Check, Check Your Fact, Univision Noticias' elDetector, FactCheck.org, MediaWise, The Washington Post Fact Checker, USA TODAY, Lead Stories, PolitiFact, Reuters, Snopes.com, T Verifica, The Dispatch Fact Check, The Weekly Standard Fact Check, and Factchequeado. 

In addition, elDetector, PolitiFact and Factcheck.org have been allies of Factchequeado since 2022 in building a community to combat disinformation in Spanish in the United States, which today has nearly 60 media outlets and allied organizations.

Our Commitments:

1. A commitment to impartiality and equity: for this we have developed a non-partisanship policy that is public and can be consulted here.  

2. A commitment to the transparency of our sources: for this we have developed a source policy, which is public and you can consult here. 

3. A commitment to transparency in financing and organization: here you can see our financing and here you can see who works at Factchequeado and a detailed biography of each of us. 

4. A commitment to transparency in the methodology: for this we have developed a method, which is public and our commitment to you and which you can consult here. 

5. A commitment to open and honest corrections, in case we make mistakes: for this we have developed a rectification policy that is public and which you can consult here.

At this link you can read the complete International Fact Checking Network (IFCN) Code of Principles document in English. And here you can access a translation in Spanish made by Chequeado, half co-founder of Factchequeado. If you believe that we are not complying, you can file a complaint with the IFCN here.