Comprova Archives - First Draft

Year in Review: 'Social media polarisation in Brazil remains the same after the election'

Sérgio Lüdtke is the editor of Comprova, a collaborative reporting project supported by First Draft and Abraji. Based in Sao Paulo, he oversees different newsrooms monitoring misinformation and disinformation across Brazil.

Brazilian newsrooms join forces once again under Comprova banner to tackle disinformation

The Comprova project in Brazil came together again to scrutinise disinformation campaigns around policies of the federal government led by Jair Bolsonaro.

New research shows the successful impact of newsroom collaboration on fighting misinformation

Comprova was launched in response to plummeting trust in the Brazilian media, which dropped by 17% between 2017 and 2018

What 100,000 WhatsApp messages reveal about misinformation in Brazil

In Brazil, the Comprova project's tipline amassed one of the largest known WhatsApp data sets around elections. Here's what we learned.

How a 'wake-up call' over disinformation inspired this Brazilian journalist

A conversation with Alessandra Monnerat from Estadão Verifica, the fact-checking unit of the Brazilian newspaper Estadão.

What we learned in Brazil about building trust and collaborations

The story behind the Comprova project, the subject of new research demonstrating the impact of collaborative efforts to tackle misinformation.