June Anniversaries
Five of 65 verified signatories to the International Fact-Checking Network’s statement of principles will come due for re-verification in June 2019.
FactCheck.org (US) June 7, 2018
Libération – CheckNews (France) June 11, 2018
Maldito Bulo (Spain) June 7, 2018
Pesa Check (Kenya) June 12, 2018
Science Feedback (France) June 7, 2018
IFCN Director Baybars Örsek has said that fact-checking organizations retain verified status while undergoing their annual reviews.
Four fact-checking organizations passed the date of their annual reverification in May 2019. The IFCN has not yet confirmed reverification for any of the four.
Pagella Politica (Italy) May 25, 2018
Snopes (US) May 4, 2018
The Conversation Australia (Australia) May 24, 2018
Viralgranskaren (Sweden)
Another eight fact-checking organizations went past their annual reverification dates in March 2019 or earlier. A total of 17 fact-checking organizations are listed as “expired verified signatories.”
Pre-republication update Aug. 2, 2025: We updated the live URL leading the IFCN list of signatories, as (the) modern version offers no evidence of what we tried to show. The new URL is the first one archived by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine and dated Aug. 12, 2018.