In this episode, you will listen to Rachel Baig, a multimedia journalist and fact-checking specialist at Deutsche Welle (DW). In her talk, she explains how the pandemic accelerated the misinformation spread and the team's effort to spot and correct disinformation in several languages and countries covered by DW. The original audio of this podcast comes from the webinar “Journalism to protect democracy: lessons from news organizations,” which occurred on November 17th, 2022. This is the second of two parts. 

Check out the fact-checking video format on YouTube and other relevant resources:

Fact-check at DW: https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check/t-56584214

Climate change and the floods in Pakistan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9lfUqbwBTU

Disarming disinformation: https://akademie.dw.com/en/disarmingdisinformation-dw-akademie-launches-new-social-media-campaign/a-62909791

Music: Five to one (Steve Poloni)
Host: Marília Gehrke
Text and audio edition: Marília Gehrke