Chequeado is a non profit organization, whose aim is to provide reliable and relevant data on public debate subjects. For this, since its launch in 2010, it regularly publishes fact checks, as well as pieces in other formats, that help provide evidence for citizens decision making. Chequeado is based in Buenos Aires, from where it conducts its journalistic work, as well as an educational program to stimulate critical thinking and an innovation program to try new formats with greater impact and develop automatization tools for fact checking.

Chequeado is a well established news organization in Argentina, devoted to fact-checking and debunking of missinformation. It was set up in 2010 by a fundation, called Fundación La Voz Pública para la Verificación del Discurso Público, which was legallly registered in September of 2010.

Chequeado regularly publishes fact checks on its website, as well as presenting them in weekly columns in three national media. It also posts the information in social media, sometimes in specific formats as GIFs. We fact check opinions leaders, politicians, journalists, business people, social leaders and others. We also debunk viral misinformation that circulates in social media.

The fact checks are published here:

http://chequeado.com/ultimas-noticias/

The debunking of viral misinformation is published here:

https://chequeado.com/verificacionfb/ 

According to the assessment made of the last three months (Jan.-Mar. 2019), Chequeado publishes on average 3-4 fact-checks per week. When events of special relevance take place, such as important political announcements or public debates, tens of fact-checks can be published in just one day. On the period assessed, there has been no week with at least one fact check published.

Chequeado is committed to non partisanship since its beginning. The claims that are fact checked are selected according to their impact and relevance, and cover all relevant members of a debate. We have a public method, which includes asking the person who is being fact checked about the source of their information, which assures us each person has the same possibility to answer, and their claim will have the same treatment, as we follow the same method in all cases (the method can be seen here: https://chequeado.com/metodo/ )

The balance can bee seen in this selection of pieces in which Chequeado fact checked members of the governing party, and the main opposition parties.

https://chequeado.com/ultimas-noticias/urtubey-salta-ya-se-encuentra-entre-las-cuatro-provincias-con-la-mayor-cantidad-de-efectivos-por-habitante/

https://chequeado.com/ultimas-noticias/macri-hoy-las-obras-salen-40-menos/

https://chequeado.com/ultimas-noticias/carrio-el-80-de-las-personas-matan-por-ira-intrafamiliar/

https://chequeado.com/ultimas-noticias/dietrich-los-siniestros-viales-son-la-primera-causa-de-muerte-en-jovenes-entre-15-y-34-anos/

https://chequeado.com/ultimas-noticias/cfk-argentina-es-el-quinto-pais-en-formacion-de-activos-externos/

https://chequeado.com/ultimas-noticias/facundo-moyano-en-inversion-extranjera-directa-hubo-mas-inversion-en-el-kirchnerismo-con-cepo-y-todo-que-ahora/

https://chequeado.com/ultimas-noticias/maximo-kirchner-sobre-los-dolares-que-ingresaron-del-fmi-en-un-mes-y-medio-ya-quemaron-la-mitad-en-fuga-de-capitales-us-7-mil-millones/

https://chequeado.com/ultimas-noticias/camano-sobre-el-salario-minimo-en-el-ranking-de-asalariados-en-dolares-de-la-region-hoy-estamos-cuartos/

https://chequeado.com/ultimas-noticias/pinedo-no-hay-ningun-caso-de-una-mujer-presa-por-abortar/

https://chequeado.com/ultimas-noticias/macri-estamos-consumiendo-un-70-mas-de-gas-buenos-aires-contra-la-ciudad-de-montevideo/ 

Since the beginning of its fact-checking service, in 2010, Chequeado covers mainly national politics, but also verifies public statements in a number of topics, such as social issues, economics and environment. In front of all these issues, Chequeado does not unduly concentrate on one side of the question analyzed; on the contrary, it strives to provide unbiased and accountable information, in order to allow their users to get a clear and contextualized understanding of the issues.

Intellectual honesty is a requirement to work in Chequeado. Each member of the team might have political opinions, but these can not influence the content they produce. Having editorial meetings in which the claims to be fact checked are decided, so no one can decide by themselves on what will be fact checked, helps to keep the fairness, as does having a method which has to be followed and having to back up each part of the piece with evidence. Also, pieces are edited by at least two people which also helps prevent a biased perspective from being published. Chequeado does not endorse political candidates, the only advocacy it does is to have better open data and more transparency. We do not accept fund of public servants or Argentine government agencies, and board members can not have a governmental job. We disclose any possible conflict of interest, as is the case of our executive director, Laura Zommer, who is married to the mayor of a city in the Province of Buenos Aires. 

Chequeado has a clear and sound policy to avoid partisanship. The way it picks the topics to be fact-checked is based on their public relevance, not in an unduly treatment of information. Chequeado has not ever supported a candidate in any election nor advocate or take partisan positions on any issues, except on its commitment to public transparence. 

Chequeado has open sources and is as transparent as possible about where the information comes from. The eight steps method we use is published on our website, so anyone can see if we have followed through. When the person who has been fact checked does not answer us, we state this in the piece, and each time a specialist is quoted we inform of any possible conflict of interest to the best of our knowledge (for example if they worked for a previous administration). If we use databases or reports, we link them, and if we produced special databases for the piece we open them so anyone can use them in the future. We monitor the sources we use so that we are balanced in the long term in terms of public and private institutions, NGOs or other criteria, and. Since this year, we are striving to achieve a balances in gender among the specialists we quote. 

Chequeado's fact-checks are consistently backed with links to reliable sources of data, and when there is an aspect that can't be backed with links or databases, expert sources are consulted and disclosed to back the fact-checks

Chequeado works to have a diversified funding and it publishes the different sources, with the names of people, companies and organizations that donate to it. We also publish our annual budget and our annual balance with the details of the funds we receive. We do not accept funding from argentine governments or political parties.

http://chequeado.com/financiamiento/

http://chequeado.com/rendicion-de-cuentas/ 

Chequeado is a non-governmental news organization, owned by a non-partisan, not-for-profit foundation. On its website it dicloses detailed information about it ownership and and funding scheme.

All the names and short bios of the team are published, as well as those of the authorities of the organisation.

http://chequeado.com/equipo/

http://chequeado.com/autoridades/

Chequeado provides detailed, clear and easy-to-reach information about its funding and board members, as well as of its staff members.

Readers can contact us via social media, send us a private email through our contact form https://chequeado.com/contacto, as well as through chequeado.com/colectivo and via our WhatsApp number (+54 9 11 3679-0690)

Users can easily contact Chequeado trough different means, such as a contact form, different social media platforms, and staff members' emails, which are openly disclosed. In addition, users can send their fact-checking proposals, through a specific section of the website, called Chequeo Colectivo.

Our methodology for fact checking public figures and our methodology to debunk viral misinformation are available here

http://chequeado.com/metodo/

Chequeado's fact-checking methodology is sound and reliable, consistently applied and clearly disclosed on its website. In addition, on the same page it also explains the methodology used for exposing viral misinformation.

We have a platform to receive suggestions from reader that is called Chequeo Colectivo (http://chequeado.com/colectivo/) where we answer and classify the suggestions according to whether they have already been fact checked, if it is in process or if it can not be fact checked.

We also receive emails through our contact form with suggestions and we have a WhatsApp line were our readers can send us suggestions. We can also be reached in social media platforms, such as Facebook and Twitter. 

Chequeado allows users to send claims and corrections through different means of contact. It has a section, called Chequeo Colectivo, where it actively invites users to contribute with their ideas and suggested topics to be fact-checked.

Our correction policy is part of our method and it can be found here

http://chequeado.com/metodo/

Chequeado allows users to send claims and corrections through different means of contact. In case a mistake has been found by anyone, Chequeado commits itself to responding to these claims in less than 48 hours.

In this piece, we originally stated that the government of Raúl Alfonsín (1983-1989) did not have a majority in the house or the Senate when actually it did have a majority in the House of Representatives. We corrected the information and stated the change in the piece: https://chequeado.com/ultimas-noticias/macri-somos-el-primer-gobierno-en-100-anos-que-pasa-todo-su-mandato-en-minoria/

In other cases, when we have a correction request with no bases, we answer publicly, as we did in this case with the Security Ministry who asked us to change the rating of one of our fact checks. We publicly clarified what she had asked for and why we did not change it

https://chequeado.com/hilando-fino/chequeado-sostiene-el-enganoso-a-bullrich-respecto-de-su-frase-sobre-extranjeros-presos/  

Where a correction had to be made to fact-checks, Chequeado has provided a clear correction statement in that same page. In addition, it has a public page that lists the updates and corrections (Actualizaciones y correcciones) made over the last few years.