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Chequeado

Chequeado

Area of work Independent Media

Geographic focus Latin America

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Chequeado

Chequeado is a non-profit, non-partisan independent media organisation and Latin America's first fact-checking site.

Find out more

http://chequeado.com/

Funding details

Name

Primary impact area

Geographic focus

Year

Amount committed (US$)

Term

Chequeado 2018 Grant

Independent Media

Latin America

2018

680,000

36 months

Chequeado 2016 Grant

Independent Media

Latin America

2016

237,000

25 months

Chequeado 2021 Grant

Independent Media

Latin America

2021

310,000

27 months

Total

US$ 1,227,000

Driving civic engagement in Argentina through advocacy, fact-checking,...

In the months leading up to the election in Argentina last year, we supported organisations working to empower and inform voters.

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Chequeado: A fact-checking movement

For individuals to engage in civic action, vote in a way that aligns with their values, or even make decisions that affect their daily lives, they need to be well informed. While information has never been more readily available,...

Why We Invested: Chequeado

Ensuring citizens are well-informed is essential to a healthy democracy, and yet, while there has never been more information available, it has never been more difficult to get to the facts.In a public sphere of information...