We are attaching the "Copia Literal de la Partida Registral" of Grupo La Republica Publicaciones that support that we are a duly created company in Peru.

Grupo La República Publicaciones S.A. is a well established and widely recognized news organization of Peru, publisher of 'La República', one of the leading newspapers of the country since it was founded in 1981. As part of the website of 'La República', in September 2019 it was launched a service called 'Verificador' (Verifier), briefly called 'VerificadorLR' in social networks, devoted to fact-checking and debunking of missinformation. As requested, the applicant has presented evidence of its legal registration.

The fact-check and debunking notes are presented in the "Verificador" section and are grouped in the News area. However, they can be related to Politics, Society, World, Environment, Economy or others.

Site Verificador https://larepublica.pe/verificador/

List https://larepublica.pe/verificador/listado/

https://larepublica.pe/economia/2019/07/09/rosa-bartra-afirmacion-de-congresista-fujimorista-de-que-con-este-gobierno-hay-cada-vez-mas-pobres-es-falsa/

https://larepublica.pe/verificador/2019/10/07/venezolanos-en-peru-es-falso-que-extranjeros-puedan-nacionalizarse-peruanos-con-solo-un-certificado-de-trabajo/

https://larepublica.pe/verificador/2019/11/14/evo-morales-es-falso-que-camiones-de-caudales-trasladaron-dinero-al-avion-donde-iba-expresidente-de-bolivia-en-paraguay-video/

https://larepublica.pe/mundo/2019/08/20/brasil-y-bolivia-es-cierto-que-la-region-amazonica-esta-en-llamas-desde-hace-mas-de-15-dias-twitter-prayforamazonia-video/

https://larepublica.pe/verificador/2019/09/24/mexico-amlo-salario-minimo-de-guatemala-honduras-y-el-salvador-es-superior-al-mexicano/

La República's Verificador covers a variety of subjects or speakers in a fairly balanced way. It covers a wide range of topics of both national and international issues. It publishes fact-checks on a regular basis, on average 3-4 per week. 

In order to maintain quality standards through fact checks, we filter the issues to be verified based on the criteria of public interest, impact and scope of influence. It is important for "La República" to verify the content on social networks that affects our readers, as well as that which is given as true because it was said by a public character.

In addition, we follow a standardized protocol to guarantee the quality of the verifications. In the case of viral publications, we check their originality and in the case of affirmations, we assess the veracity of the data.

We write a verification article with a recognizable scheme, illustrative images and clear wording; In short, elements that facilitate reading. To this we add enough context to present the case in its real dimension.

The articles that best illustrate the verification work of "La República" are related with:

Politics

It is false that 70% of ‘gang-rapers’ are foreigners, as they claim from Vox.

https://larepublica.pe/verificador/2019/11/06/espana-santiago-abascal-e-ivan-espinosa-politicos-de-vox-afirman-que-mayoria-de-violadores-en-manada-son-extranjeros-lo-cual-es-falso-video/

It is false that a government can make use of Central Bank funds, as Andrés Hurtado stated.

https://larepublica.pe/politica/2019/08/26/andres-hurtado-chibolin-es-falso-que-un-gobierno-pueda-usar-fondos-del-banco-central-para-construir-casas-como-propone-el-presentador/

It is false that Martín Vizcarra provides ‘express citizenship to foreigners, as Cecilia Chacón stated.

https://larepublica.pe/verificador/2019/10/07/nacionalidad-peruana-es-falso-que-martin-vizcarra-brinde-ciudadania-express-a-extranjeros-como-afirmo-cecilia-chacon/

Justice and corruption

"People are not interested in corruption": Lourdes Alcorta's phrase does not match the polls.

https://larepublica.pe/politica/2019/07/18/lourdes-alcorta-frase-de-congresista-de-fuerza-popular-de-que-a-la-gente-no-le-interesa-la-corrupcion-no-se-condice-con-las-encuestas-video/

It is false that the ‘El Monstruo de la Bicicleta - Bicycle Monster’ is free: he was sentenced to life imprisonment.

https://larepublica.pe/verificador/2019/10/13/monstruo-de-la-bicicleta-es-falso-que-cesar-alva-mendoza-salga-libre-recibio-cadena-perpetua-por-caso-jimena-video/

It is false that "Venezuelan mother tortures her son": woman in the video is Peruvian.

https://larepublica.pe/verificador/2019/09/27/venezolana-tortura-a-su-hija-es-falso-el-video-corresponderia-a-una-mujer-peruana-de-yungayo-puno-diana-carolina-cori-y-ramiro-mamani/

Ambient

“Bolsonaro supports the sustainable development of the Amazon”: Carlos Tubino's statement is false.

https://larepublica.pe/politica/2019/08/09/carlos-tubino-jair-bolsonaro-apoya-el-desarrollo-sostenible-de-la-amazonia-de-brasil-frase-de-congresista-de-fuerza-popular-es-falsa/

CR7 and Messi virals hiring planes in favor of the Amazon are false.

https://larepublica.pe/mundo/2019/08/25/amazonas-incendio-forestal-en-brasil-cristiano-ronaldo-y-lionel-messi-es-falso-que-futbolistas-contrataron-aviones-para-apagar-fuego-en-la-selva-amazonica-video/

Fire in the Amazon: It is false that “heavy rains” have fallen in the Brazilian Amazon.

https://larepublica.pe/mundo/2019/08/22/llueve-en-amazonas-incendio-forestal-en-amazonia-de-brasil-clima-y-lluvia-de-hoy-no-disminuira-las-llamas-y-el-fuego-video/

Health

Recommendation to avoid preventive screening for prostate cancer is mislead

https://larepublica.pe/verificador/2019/10/18/cancer-de-prostata-prevencion-de-norteamerica-dejo-de-recomendar-chequeo-preventivo/

According to the set of ten fact-checks provided by the applicant and my own assessment of the archive in the last three months, La República's Verificador covers a variety of topics. Besides politics, which is notably the main topic, it also covers many other issues, such as justice and corruption, environment, health and even celebrity and odd news. Verificador presents the fact-checking article under a recognizable layout that helps readers to indentify that news story as a fact-checking piece.

Stipulated in the code of ethics of Grupo La Republica, article 7.1.6. about the conflict of interest.

La República's Verificador does not advocate in favor or against any Peruvian political party or candidate. The publishing company has a sound ethics code, which prevents workers from taking advantage of their position to make any business arrangement with third parties. Accepting payments or any kind of funding from companies or political parties is also prohibited to journalists.  

In the case of source policy the treatment depends on the type of source. If it is audiovisual material, the tools that were used and the method used to reach it are mentioned. If the source is an article, the owner is mentioned, the website where it is hosted and the date of publication. Usually, images are inserted into the note that allow you to follow the verification process.

We consider it important to contextualize the data that we provide to the reader. Therefore, we turn to specialists who can broaden the subject. In addition, we specify where they work. Usually they belong to the public sector.

Readers are invited to suggests news stories and statements to be fact-checked, as well as to submit corrections, in case they find something wrong in the fact-checks.

In the fact-checks, La República's Verificador backs regularly the correct information with reliable sources. However, it usually does so just by attributing the source, without linking to pages of those external sources. When links are used, they mostly refer to internal pages of La República. In order to improve the capacity of readers to check the truthfulness of the reports by themselves, it would be advisable to add external links in the fact-checks. We invite the applicant to improve this aspect.

At the moment we have no relationship with funding organizations that support journalistic projects.

La República's Verificador does not provide on the 'about us' section of its website or anywhere else any specific information “detailing each source of funding over the past calendar year accounting for 5% or more of total revenue”, contrary to what it is requested by the IFCN code of principles. As this fact-checking project is bound to a newspaper publishing company, Grupo La República Publicaciones S.A., readers could somehow find this funding information by themselves. However, this searching of financial information would take substantial effort and time, so the readers can easily get lost trying to find it. Therefore a clearer, more transparent funding data would be appreciated.

The "Verificador" team is in the "Nosotros" section.

Staff https://larepublica.pe/verificador/2019/09/10/sobre-nosotros/

On the 'Sobre nosotros' (About us) section, La República's Verificador presents the names and emails of the staff members behind the project, composed of five editors and journalists when this assessment was performed. However, contrary to what it is requested by the IFCN code of principles, it did not provide any profile or biography of these journalists. This deficiency should be fixed by the applicant in order to fully comply with the requirements.

Contact https://larepublica.pe/verificador/2019/09/11/contacto/

La República's Verificador provides a specific, easy-to-find contact page for comments, suggestions and complaints.

We explain how we check the verification articles in the "Metodología" section: https://larepublica.pe/verificador/2019/09/10/metodologia/

La República's Verificador informs in sufficient detail about its fact-checking methodology.

We have created "Contacto" area for verifications requests, consultation, links and reader data.

https://larepublica.pe/verificador/2019/09/11/contacto/

Readers are invited to suggests news stories and statements to be fact-checked through the contact page.

Corrections will be explained with a heading at the end of the article.

In the event that the article has errors that distort the rating and should be removed from the section, an explanation will be left next to the owner with whom it was shared on social networks in the "Correcciones" section.

https://larepublica.pe/verificador/2019/10/19/correcciones/

La República's Verificador works under a sound corrections policy, publicly disclosed on the website.

To date there are no corrections.

This assesment was performed in January 2020, when just four months had passed since La República's Verificador was launched in September 2019. Therefore, it was a too short period of time to obtain enought evidences of corrections made over the past year. Despite this short period of activity, one news story with a correction was found, which, according to the requirements of the IFCN code of principles, it was later disclosed in a public list of corrections.

In regard of this only evidence, the assessment of this criterion is as fully compliant. However, we recommend the applicant to improve the transparency of their corrections. In the only news story that had been corrected by the time this assessment was performed, they just added a final paragraph to the fact-check, indicating that an original paragraph of the news had been removed because it was "oblivious to the verification of documents". A more transparent and accountable correction would be advisable, in order to allow readers to track which details of the fact-checking news story were corrected and why.