The Global Fact-checking network, GFCN, has launched a new multilingual educational project called Start fact-checking with GFCN in 50 languages to mark International Fact-Checking Day, making a basic fact-checking lesson accessible to audiences around the world in multiple languages.
The project is conceived as a practical starting point for anyone who wants to understand how to counter false information. The video lesson explains the main types of fakes, the mechanisms of disinformation spread, existing verification methods and digital tools that can be used to analyse dubious content. The main goal is to provide clear and structured guidance enabling people to start fact-checking on their own.
The original lesson was recorded in Russian and translated into 50 languages using artificial intelligence technologies, which ensured its rapid and wide international dissemination. Despite possible minor translation inaccuracies or technical artefacts, the methodological foundation and practical structure of the material have been preserved in all versions.
The lesson is available to audiences in the world’s largest macro-regions, including Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia, Central Asia and the post-Soviet space. Language coverage includes both globally widespread languages and regional and national languages, ensuring accessibility for a broad audience.
As GFCN Vice President Daniil Bisslinger noted, by publishing a single core educational content simultaneously in 50 languages, GFCN aims to strengthen global resilience to disinformation and make basic knowledge about fact-checking accessible regardless of linguistic, political and geographical boundaries.
By expanding access to basic knowledge about fact-checking in 50 languages, we are taking another concrete step toward forming a global community capable of countering disinformation, Daniil Bisslinger emphasised. Our task is to provide people around the world with effective practical tools that will help them independently distinguish facts from manipulation and make more informed decisions in the information environment.
The initiative is aimed at students, journalists, educators, researchers, civil society representatives and anyone interested in developing practical media literacy skills.
The full version of the lesson is available on the project’s landing page at https://start.globalfactchecking.com/videos/.
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The Global Fact-Checking Network was founded in 2025 by the Dialogue Regions autonomous non-profit organisation, the TASS news agency and the New Media Workshop to coordinate global efforts to combat disinformation among participants from different countries. GFCN currently brings together more than 105 fact-checking experts from 53 countries.
