Verificat is a fact-checking project created in April 2019 to combat misinformation in Catalonia.Grego Casanova, ‘Verificat’, la primera plataforma de verificació de dades de Catalunya (“The first data verification platform in Catalonia,” in Catalan), 4 April 2019. Accessed 3 October 2020. Created as an independent non-profit, the project was inspired by the platforms of the Poynter Institute's International Fact-Checking Network,EFE, Cataluña estrena ‘Verificat’, su propia plataforma contra las ‘Fake News’ (“Catalonia launches ‘Verificat’, its own platform to counter ‘Fake News’,” in Spanish), 2 April 2019. Accessed 3 October 2020. and in 2020 has become a verified signatory of its Code of Principles.
The platform was founded by Alba Tobella and Lorenzo Marini, its current co-directors, together with Carola Solé, Roser Toll, Carina Bellver and Elisa Vivas, before the Barcelona municipal election campaign of 2019.Neix Verificat, la primera plataforma de ‘fact-checking’ en català (“Verificat founded, the first “fact-checking” platform in Catalan”), 2 April 2019, Barcelona TV channel Betevé. Accessed 3 October 2020. The project has received financial support from the Open Society Foundations since 2019.
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External links https://www.verificat.cat/ (website)