First Check Diaries by Tracey Nomatter Ruzengwe
For as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated by science and the way it explains the functioning of the human body. During my high school days, I...
First Check Diaries by Dr Arulchelan Sriram
Have you heard the popular folktale about Akbar and Birbal, the Mughal emperor and his ingenious advisor, that beautifully captures the human tendency to give (often useless, sometimes harmful) health-related...
First Check Diaries by Tej Kumar
Have you heard of the condition where people find it hard to meet and interact with new people? It’s not about being shy or an introvert; the condition is called...
First Check Diaries by Walter Balane
As a journalist and radio broadcaster, fact-checking has become an integral part of my work. We need to check, verify, and counter-check facts, before using them in storytelling. My fact-checking...
First Check Diaries by Jisha Krishnan
Today is International Fact-Checking Day, promoted by the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) in partnership with fact-checking organisations around the world. As a verified signatory of IFCN, First Check has been...
First Check Diaries by Dr Safieh Shah
During the early days of the pandemic, I had immigrated to Canada and was keen to contribute my skills as a humanitarian public health scientist with global experience, in a...
First Check Diaries by John Aloyzeus Reotutar
Once a victim of health misinformation, I know from my own experience that it can lead to grave mistrust and negatively impact public health. Even before the pandemic, health misinformation...
First Check Diaries by Dr Chandrika Kambam
Happy New Year! As we enter 2023, the battle against misinformation has to get stronger. In today’s era of digitalisation, information spreads at the speed of light, and misinformation spreads...
First Check Diaries by Saleem Samad
Almost three years ago, Bangladesh, like most countries, experienced a nightmare when the coronavirus infection turned into a pandemic. The deaths and infection rates were galloping at an unprecedented pace....
First Check Diaries by Dr Manisha Arora Pandit
Like most people of my generation, I too have a fairly significant online presence. However, until recently I had no idea of the massive scaling effect of social media and...
First Check Diaries by Dr Sameera Ranasinghe
I was introduced to the world of fact-checking after working in the public health sector for more than eight years. Although health promotion was one of my fields of expertise,...
First Check Diaries by Qian Sun
It was late January, 2020. Amidst the catastrophic COVID-19 crisis in China, I landed in Delhi. Soon, I met Syed Nazakat (the founder and CEO of DataLEADS) and a conversation over...
First Check Diaries by Abara Erim
Health misinformation, I strongly believe, must be treated like a disease because it behaves like one. My experience during the Ebola outbreak in Nigeria in 2014 fuels my passion for...
First Check Diaries by Dr Ahmad Firdaus Mohd Haris
“We’re not just fighting an epidemic, we’re fighting an infodemic. Fake news spreads faster and more easily than this virus (COVID-19) and is just as dangerous.” - Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,...
First Check Diaries by Dr. Rohini Karandikar
As a member of First Check, I feel like a warrior, fighting the infodemic. The pandemic showed us how people contracted,spread, or even succumbed to COVID-19 because they fell for...
First Check Diaries by Dr. Nicola Simone
“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” - Ludwig WittgensteinBefore joining First Check, I was an independent fact-checker with a personal page on Facebook. When I...
First Check Diaries by Dr. Debanjan Banerjee
“We now live in a world where information is potentially unlimited. When information is cheap, meaning turns expensive.” - George Dyson I believe that every physician is inherently a fact-checker,...
