About this Webinar

The future of fact-checking after Meta’s decision to eliminate its fact-checking programme is the focus of an INMA Newsroom Transformation Initiative Webinar featuring Aaron Sharockman, executive director at Politifact, and Angie Drobnic Holan, fact checker at International Fact-Checking Network.

Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, announced in January that it would end its longstanding fact-checking programme, which was originally instituted to help curtail the spread of misinformation across its social media apps. Meta provided funding to 10 partner organisations, primarily news providers, to perform fact-checks for its platforms.

The decision has led to conversations and concerns about misinformation/disinformation and how to prevent its spread in the wake of Meta’s change.

In this Webinar moderated by INMA Newsroom Transformation Lead, Amalie Nash, Aaron and Angie will talk about the impact of the decision and how they see the future for fact-checking in newsrooms of all sizes.

About Aaron Sharockman

Aaron is the executive director of PolitiFact, and the vice president for Sales and Strategic Partnerships at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies. In his roles, Aaron oversees PolitiFact and Poynter's partnerships with newsrooms, NGOs, and technology companies. Aaron is a veteran journalist, having written about government and politics before joining the staff of PolitiFact in 2010 to launch PolitiFact's fact-checking program in Florida.

About Angie Drobnic Holan

Angie is the director of the International Fact-Checking Network, which supports and promotes fact-checking worldwide. Before assuming that role in June 2023, Angie served as editor-in-chief of PolitiFact, the U.S. fact-checking site, for 10 years. She has extensive experience fact-checking the presidency, Congress and political campaigns, and was a reporter on the PolitiFact team that won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting.