At GlobalFact, fact-checkers reckon with declining grant funding and AI-generated disinfo on the rise

Earlier this month, roughly one hundred eighty fact-checkers convened in Vilnius, Lithuania for the annual GlobalFact conference. According to Nieman Lab, the gathering centered on two pressing challenges: declining grant funding and the explosion of AI-generated disinformation. Lithuania's defense minister opened the event, framing it as a confrontation with what he called 'cognitive warfare'—a signal of how seriously governments view the threat to information integrity.

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