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Ecuador Verifica fact checks more Presidential campaign claims

Published on February 03, 2021
Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn Over the last two months, we’ve run articles from Ecuador Verifica, an initiative in the country that brings together 14 media, 9 civil society organizations and 7 universities. Its objectives are to combat misinformation, verify the veracity of the speeches of the candidates (and their supporters or detractors) for the 2021 Ecuadorian […]

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