Verificado 2018, a collaborative fact-checking project that took place during Mexico’s presidential election last year, was one of the country’s largest collaborative journalistic efforts to date. Thanks to its social media first approach and strong focus on audience engagement, the initiative bagged this year’s World Digital Media Award for Best Innovation to Engage Youth Audiences.

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The journalism industry’s fight against disinformation has given rise to various collaborative fact-checking projects involving scores  of newsrooms in multiple countries.

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While coordinated online campaigns using memes, hashtags and fake news played a major role in the US elections, same methods have failed to take flight in France.

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As Ukrainians headed to the polls on 25 May in snap elections that were commended by international observers for largely upholding democratic commitments, turmoil in eastern Ukraine saw an increase in violence against journalists. A day before the elections, Italian photojournalist Andrea Rocchelli and his Russian interpreter Andrey Mironov were killed while covering the fighting in Slavyansk, while on 25 May, separatists took two journalists hostage – Viacheslav Bondarenko and Maksym Osovsky – as they covered the elections in Luhansk region. The pair was released several days later.

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