Deepanjalie Abeywardana

Head - Media Research,
Verité Research

Deepanjalie Abeywardana heads the Media Research Team. She has extensive experience in media ethics, media behaviour as well as media and women. She also trains journalists on media ethics and has taken part in several fellowships and programs on media studies abroad. Additionally, she has experience on conflict resolution and human rights through her studies at University of Oslo, Norway and the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Deepanjalie received a BA in International Relations from the University of Colombo and a MA in South Asian Studies from Pondicherry University, India where she was selected as one of the first two Sri Lankans to undertake the MA on a Madanjeet Singh Scholarship.

Peerapon Anutarasoat

Team Leader, 
Sure And Share Center, Thai News Agency, MCOT 

After a decade of being journalist at Thai News Agency; MCOT, In 2015, he initiated Thailand's first fact-checking TV program called "ชัวร์ก่อนแชร์" ('sure-gorn-share'; Thai phrase means 'make sure before you share’) which has grown to a fact-checking platform with multiple channels and content types. He leads Sure And Share Center team monitoring topics, finding the facts, creating contents, and answering Thai people’s questions.

Htaike Htaike Aung

Executive Director, 
Myanmar ICT for Development Organization 

Htaike Htaike Aung, Co-founder and Executive Director, Myanmar ICT for Development Organization (MIDO)

MIDO is one of the very few ICT-focused non governmental organization in Myanmar/Burma. MIDO focuses on ICTs for development, Internet freedom and Internet policy advocacy works in Myanmar. Since the introduction of the Internet to the public in Myanmar, she has been involved in Myanmar’s Internet propagation events. She is also a digital security & privacy trainer/consultant for human rights defenders in Myanmar. Some of the notable initiatives that MIDO is involved in are Panzagar (anti hate speech campaign), Kyeet election monitoring application, Myanmar Internet Freedom Forum, Peace Tech Exchange and Lighthouses (community information centres) etc.

Trushar Barot

Digital Launch Editor, BBC Indian Language News Service, 
BBC News India 

Trushar has been the Digital Launch Editor for the BBC's Indian Language News Services for the past year and is now leading the BBC's fake news digital literacy project in India. He has previously worked in Digital Development for BBC World Service and was a Visiting Fellow at the Nieman Foundation at Harvard.

Esther Chan

Australia Editor, 
Storyful 

Esther Chan heads Storyful's Australia office in Sydney. Before relocating to Down Under, she helped the company's Hong Kong bureau provide news and video content for media partners and agencies, often with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region. Esther was previously a documentary maker and reporter for Hong Kong broadcaster ATV.

Yvonne Chua

Co-founder | VERA Files Fact Check Project Director, 
Verafiles Incorporated

Yvonne T. Chua is an assistant professor of journalism at the University of the Philippines and co-founder of the media nonprofit VERA Files. A journalist since 1981, Yvonne teaches fact-checking, among other courses, at the university and has been leading VERA Files Fact Check since 2016.

Wahyu Dhyatmika

Editor-in-Chief, 
Tempo

Wahyu is the Editor-in-Chief of Tempo.co, Indonesia. In 2015, he led the Panama Papers project in Tempo that expose links between several prominent names in Indonesian business and political landscape with the hidden offshore financial structure. Now he is developing collaborative investigative projects with several media inside Indonesia and also cross border between Asian countries. He is also instrumental in fellowship programs for journalist and students across Indonesia to work as investigative reporters in Tempo’s newsroom.

Wahyu is also on the board of the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) Indonesia where he in in charge of partnership and international relation.

He is also the Secretary General of Indonesia Cyber Media Association (AMSI) a newly formed organization for digital media in the country. In an era of hoax and miss information, AMSI initiated cekfakta.com where 22 digital mainstream media work together to collaboratevely factcheck information.

Jency Jacob

Managing Editor,
Ping Digital/ BOOM 

Jency Jacob is the Managing Editor of BOOM and has 17 years experience of working with some of the top brands across television and print networks in the country. At BOOM, Jency apart from providing editorial leadership to the team, also writes fact checks and opinion pieces on claims made by those in power and social media influencers. Jency is also the co-host of the weekly fact check show Fact Vs Fiction.

Before joining BOOM, Jency was the Senior Editor at Business Standard’s Digital vertical and played a very important role in synergising the print and web operations and scale up the newsroom’s contribution to the web between 2013 to 2016. He has also spent over 8 years working in Mumbai as a city and business reporter and covered major stories in the first decade of this century.

Masato Kajimoto

Assitant Professor,
Journalism & Media Studies Centre, the University of Hong Kong

Masato Kajimoto, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of practice at the Journalism & Media Studies Centre, the University of Hong Kong, and the founder of the Asia Pacific Digital Citizens Network. He specializes in news literacy education and misinformation ecosystem research in Asia.

Elin Yunita Kristanti

Managing Editor,
Liputan6.com

Elin Yunita Kristanti is Managing Editor for News, Regional, and Global/International Channels at Liputan6.com, one of the top 3 leading of digital media outlet in Indonesia. She supervises Cek Fakta Liputan6.com. 

Irene Jay Liu

News Lab Lead, APAC,
Google

Irene Jay Liu leads Google News Lab in the Asia-Pacific region. She was previously an investigative reporter and data editor at Reuters, where she was a 2017 Pulitzer finalist in the national reporting category. Earlier, she worked at the South China Morning Post and as a political reporter with the Times Union in Albany, New York. Before relocating to Singapore, she taught data-driven investigative journalism at the University of Hong Kong and Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Karl Malakunas

Asia-Pacific Social Media Editor,
Agence France-Presse

Asia-Pacific Social Media Editor for Agence France-Presse. Multimedia journalist and experienced newsroom manager. Head of AFP's Fact-Checking operations in the Asia-Pacific.

Alexios Mantzarlis

Director, 
International Fact-Checking Network 

Alexios Mantzarlis joined Poynter to lead the International Fact-Checking Network in September of 2015. In this capacity he writes about and advocates for fact-checking. He also trains and convenes fact-checkers around the world.

As Director of the IFCN, Alexios has helped draft the fact-checkers' code of principles, shepherded a partnership between third-party fact-checkers and Facebook, testified to the Italian Chamber of Deputies on the ""fake news"" phenomenon and helped launch International Fact-Checking Day. In January 2018 he was invited to join the European Union's High Level Group on fake news and online disinformation. He has also drafted a lesson plan for UNESCO and a chapter on fact-checking in the 2016 U.S. presidential elections in Truth Counts, published by Congressional Quarterly.

Alexios previously served as Managing Editor of Pagella Politica and FactCheckEU, respectively Italy's main political fact-checking website and the EU's first multilingual crowd-checking project. While at Pagella Politica, he presented weekly fact-checking segments on Virus, a prime time talk show airing on national broadcaster RAI 2.

Before becoming a fact-checker, he worked for the United Nations and the Italian Institute for International Political Studies.

Sergio Noviello

Full Stack Developer, 
Storyful 

Sergio Noviello is a full stack developer at Storyful and a Machine Learning enthusiast.

Sergio has built a recommendation system for a Storyful product called Newswire using collaborative filtering techniques and natural language processing.

Sergio has completed 10+ courses online including the Machine Learning course from Stanford University and the 5 Deep Learning specialization courses on Coursera. Currently enrolled in the Udacity nanodegree program for Machine Learning engineers.

He occasionally participates in machine learning competitions on kaggle.com.

Xu Pan

Data Operation Manager, 
Datadance/Bytedance

I took initiative to launch the anti-fake news project of Bytedance and was responsible for the rumor-refutation channel of Toutiao.

Flip Prior

Content Research/Strategy - News Innovation,
ABC 

A journalist/strategist for ABC News, Analysis and Investigations, Flip was formerly Twitter Australia’s news partnerships manager; the Walkley Foundation’s communications manager and a journalist with The West Australian. She was a founding committee member of Women in Media in WA and NSW and is a project manager with Media Diversity Australia.

Dulce Ramos

Program Manager,
International Fact-Checking Network

Dulce Ramos is program manager of the International Fact-Checking Network where she helps running the code of principles, a transparency verification for fact-checking outlets. Previously she worked with The New York Times en Español and the Mexican website Animal Politico.

Jason Rudin

Product Manager,
Facebook

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Craig Silverman

Media Editor,
Buzzfeed News 

Craig Silverman is an award-winning author and journalist and one of the world's leading experts on online misinformation, fake news, and content verification. He is the media editor of BuzzFeed News where he leads a global beat covering platforms, online misinformation, and media manipulation.

Craig previously was the founding editor of BuzzFeed Canada, and was also the founder of Emergent.info, a rumor tracking project that was developed as part of a research fellowship with the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University. His research resulted in the publication of ""Lies, Damn Lies, and Viral Content: How News Websites Spread (and Debunk) Online Rumors, Unverified Claims and Misinformation."" From 2004 to 2015 he wrote Regret The Error, a blog about media accuracy and corrections, which became part of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies and was the basis for an award-winning book of the same name.

Craig was named to the Politico 50 for his work exposing fake news and its effect on American politics. His journalism and books have been honored by the Mirror Awards, U.S. National Press Club, National Magazine Awards (Canada), Digital Publishing Awards, and Crime Writers of Canada. Attachments area.

Pratik Sinha

Editor, 
Alt News

I'm the co-founder of an India fact-checking website called Alt News. We look at misinformation/disinformation in the social media and mainstream media ecosystem in India.

Eoghan Sweeny

Global Training Director, 
First Draft 

Eoghan Sweeney leads First Draft's international training efforts. He worked full-time in print, broadcast and online media from 1999, before joining First Draft in July 2017. Prior to First Draft, he worked for almost six years with social media news agency Storyful, where he was part of a core team that developed industry-leading techniques, systems and practices in monitoring, discovery and verification of online content. He also provides training and education in this field to media outlets, activists, NGO staff and others.

Lucian Teo

User Education and Outreach Specialist - APAC,  
Google 

Lucian leads Google's efforts to promote digital literacy and online safety education in the Asia-Pacific, working with NGOs, educational institutions and tech communities to keep internet users safe online and use technology in constructive and positive ways. Prior to joining Google, Lucian served in the Singapore Government as the Chief Information Officer in the National Population and Talent Division within the Prime Minister’s Office, and headed digital communications in a number of government agencies.

Yuebing Wang

Editor-in-chief, Factcheck,
Tencent News 

Yuebing Wang is an experienced factchecker in Tencent news, focusing on establishing a mechanism to identify and refute rumors efficiently. Her team have been creating a miniprogram named master factchecker, which includes thousands of verified data in various areas, users can easily know the authenticity of the rumor they want to check.

Cong Yu

Research Scientist,
Google AI 

Research Scientist working on fact checking and misinformation at Google.