Verified is a United Nations project to improve access to accurate information. In the project the United Nations seeks to organize a network of millions of online volunteers to curate and fact check information online.1 Verified has held a social media campaigns using hashtags to raise awareness about misinformation, such as #PledgetoPause,2 #ItsPossible3 and #OnlyTogether.4
The project is a response to misinformation online related to COVID-19.5 The project is especially concerned with online distribution of information.6
India has expressed special interest in the project and is an organizer of it along with 12 other countries.7 wikiHow has also partnered with Verified.89
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- Edith M., Lederer (22 May 2020). "UN seeks millions of people to counter virus misinformation". AP NEWS.
- "Verified | #Pledgetopause". Verified. Retrieved 2023-02-25.
- "Verified | #ItsPossible". Verified. Retrieved 2024-08-15.
- "Verified | #OnlyTogether". Verified. Retrieved 2023-02-25.
- Besheer, Margaret (21 May 2020). "UN Launches Effort to Counter COVID-19 Misinformation". Voice of America.
- Stephenson, Joan (1 June 2020). "United Nations Seeks to Counter COVID-19 Misinformation with Digital First Responders". JAMA Health Forum. 1 (6): e200700. doi:10.1001/jamahealthforum.2020.0700. PMID 36218508.
- "India leads initiative at UN to counter misinformation on COVID-19". Deccan Chronicle. 14 June 2020.
- "Are you sure you want to share that? Sorting online fact from fiction". UN News. 25 November 2021.
- "How to Fight Misinformation Online - A Course authored by wikiHow and United Nations Verified". wikiHow.