Faktabaari

Faktabaari is a Finnish fact-checking and digital information literacy service. Since 2014, it has regularly contributed to fact-based information circulation with innovative projects and fact-checks, notably to all national and European Parliamentary election debates with academically acclaimed quality and transparency standards.

Faktabaari adheres also to the Finnish ethical code for journalists, is managed by a registered Finnish non-profit transparency NGO (Avoin Yhteiskunta ry) and works predominantly on a project basis. Faktabaari Editor includes professional journalists, researchers, EU experts, teachers and technical specialists supported by a broader community of topic experts, as well as information and media literacy specialists.

Currently, Faktabaari is engaged within the new EDMO (European Digital Media Observatory) and specifically within NORDIS (Nordic Observatory for digital media and information disorders) regional EDMO hub in developing a digital information literacy approach tackling digital information disorders as well as structural information biases and microtargeting with specific focus on Elections.