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The United Nations has unveiled an “automated” fact-checking service to counter so-called disinformation and hate speech on the internet in a project partnered with Big-Tech and Soros-funded organisations.

In response to what they brand as “online information pollution”, which they claim is a “global challenge”, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has launched its iVerify platform to counter alleged disinformation and hate speech online.

The global body’s “automated fact-checking tool”, was developed in partnership with the United Nations International Computing Centre (UNICC), Facebook and Google-funded fact checker Meedan, the Meta-owned CrowdTangle, and the Soros-funded International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN). ^{(02) U.N. Unveils ‘Automated Fact-Checking Tool’ to Counter Disinformation with Big-Tech, Soros-Funded Orgs https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/06/19/un-unveils-automated-fact-checking-tool-to-counter-disinformation-and-hate-speech/ (03) Facebook/Google funded Fact-checker Meedan https://meedan.com/mission (04) Meta-owned CrowdTangle https://www.crowdtangle.com/ (05)Soros-funded —$1.3 Million in Grants from Omidyar Network, Open Society Foundations Will Expand Poynter’s International Fact-Checking Network … Click for full citation}

It described the iVerify program as an “automated fact-checking tool that can be used to identify false information and prevent and mitigate its spread.” The system will be provided by the UN to “national actors”, who will be assisted in identifying, monitoring and responding to “information integrity threats”.

By “leveraging the capabilities of artificial intelligence”, the automated system will flag “potentially false or harmful content” for review by a team of fact-checkers, to be funded in part by the governments of Canada, Ireland, Iceland and the European Union.

As previously reported, it is alleged that the BBC’s own disinformation unit, dubbed BBC Verify, is spreading disinformation. 

The iVerify system, which was initially piloted in Zambia in 2021, will also be rolled out ahead of Liberia’s October elections, with support from the Irish and Swedish embassies in the country, as well as California-based Internews. ^{(06) California Internews https://internews.org/}

The nonprofit, which was founded by David Hoffman, who previously identified as a Marxist, is largely funded by the US government as well as George Soros’s Open Society Foundations. Susan Rice, a former national security adviser to President Barack Obama, previously served on the board of directors of Internews, according to Open Secrets.

The UN program has already received some pushback, with Canadian professor Jordan Peterson describing the automated fact-checking system as an “Orwellian nightmare that plays out in real time… courtesy of globalist centralizers.” ^{(07) The UN presents an automated tool to censor, financed by Soros https://www.alertadigital.com/2023/06/22/la-onu-presenta-una-herramienta-automatizada-para-censurar-financiada-por-soros/}

IFCN promotes the excellence of fact-checking to more than 100 organizations worldwide …

The International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) at Poynter was launched in 2015 to bring together the growing community of fact-checkers around the world and advocates of factual information in the global fight against misinformation. ^{(08) IFCN—International Fact-Checking Network https://www.poynter.org/ifcn/}