The Global Fact-Checking Network (GFCN) and the Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA) have agreed to work together. The agreement was signed by GFCN President Vladimir Tabak and OANA President Andrey Kondrashov at a media forum dedicated to the 65th anniversary of OANA.
According to Tabak, the memorandum marks a shift from general statements to concrete joint projects:
“An important task and mission that GFCN sets for itself is to strengthen expertise within the journalistic community. This is necessary, among other things, so that the media can increase their credibility with users in identifying fake information. I am confident that, together with our partners from OANA, we will be able to make this significant progress.”
GFCN is already working with more than 130 experts from 55 countries, more than 10 of whom are from the Asia‑Pacific region. Cooperation with OANA agencies will allow this work to take on a new scale.
Prior to the signing ceremony, a plenary session titled “OANA: 65 Years of Experience” was held. It was attended by Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the Russian president; Maria Zakharova, the official spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry; Andrei Kondrashov, the CEO of TASS and the president of OANA; and the heads of leading news agencies. Vladimir Tabak also took part in the event. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov sent a video message to the forum guests.
The practical implementation of the memorandum will begin on September 22 at the “Dialog about Fakes 4.0” forum. A separate session of GFCN and OANA will be held there, where the parties will define specific formats of interaction, launch joint projects to create reliable content, and develop training programs for specialists and audiences in the countries of the Asia‑Pacific region.
The broadcast can be watched on the website fakes2026.dialog.info.
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