G000011 "Agence France Presse (AFP)"
Sector: Media
Primary role: Fact checking
Secondary role: Journalism
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Region: Europe
Country: France
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Summary: AFP is a global news agency that worked with First Draft to implement the CrossCheck Project during the 2017 French presidential elections. The organization has since started its own fact-checking blog and helped set up the Journalism Trust Initiative with Reporters Without Borders, the European Broadcasting Union, and the Global Editors Network. AFP is one of Facebook's Third-Party Fact-Checkers. AFP also runs a Medialab, where it develops innovative tools for verifying content and understanding information flows.