Maria Ressa, a Filipino-American journalist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, has been announced as the keynote speaker for this year’s Global Fact-Checking Summit tagged GlobalFact 11.
This was announced in a statement by the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) on May 16, 2024.
In October 2021, Ressa received the Nobel Peace Prize in appreciation of her work “to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace.”
She is a co-founder of Rappler, a Philippine-based digital news site with a comprehensive fact-checking division. Rappler has signed the IFCN’s Code of Principles since 2017.
Ressa formerly served as a CNN bureau head in both Manila (Philippine) and Jakarta (Indonesia). She has written many books, including her most recent biography, “How to Stand Up to a Dictator.”
She will appear at the GlobalFact 11 in conversation with Phil Chetwynd, Global News Director of Agence France-Presse (AFP).
They will also be joined by the following distinguished speakers: Steve Levitsky, an American political scientist and co-author of “How Democracies Die” and “Tyranny of the Majority”; AI futurist, Nikita Roy, a practitioner and promoter of responsible use of artificial intelligence in media and Craig Silverman, a longtime presenter and trainer at the GlobalFact.
The GlobalFact is the world’s biggest and annual fact-checking summit, hosted by the IFCN at the Poynter Institute. Fact-checkers can share best practices and form partnerships at this conference, which includes several days of interactive learning sessions and networking opportunities.
Also, keynote talks by professionals in journalism, academia, disinformation, and technology are included on each day of the conference. This year’s edition will be held from June 26 to 28, 2024 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
You may join this year’s edition online via www.globalfact11.com.
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