Fact-checkers reckon with shrinking budgets and growing AI threats at GlobalFact 2026

Fact-checkers reckon with shrinking budgets and growing AI threats at GlobalFact 2026

“Welcome to Vilnius, the city where we face cognitive warfare for real,” Robertas Kaunas, Lithuania’s minister of national defense, said in his opening remarks at this year’s GlobalFact. On June 17, hundreds of fact-checkers assembled in Vilnius for the annual conference of the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), part of the Poynter Institute. Roughly 180 fact-checking organizations in more than 55 countries are signed onto IFCN’s Code o…