Health fact-checking is part of a broader rise in digital verification taking place around the world. Outlets like Snopes.com, Politifact, and organizations including Africa Check and Pesa Check have ...
Megan Marrelli
Megan Marrelli is a Canadian journalist and a program manager at Meedan where she is the lead for the journalism collaboration program Pop-Up Newsroom. In her spare time she is a freelance investigative reporter for Type Media Center. Previously, Megan has been a News Associate Producer on Netflix's Peabody award-winning show Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj, and Digital Editor at the Globe and Mail. She holds a Master of Science from the Columbia Journalism School and lives in New York City.
From growing anti-vaccine movements to HIV-deniers and climate skeptics, online health misinformation and disinformation fuels the rise of groups that mistrust scientific evidence, and spread their mi...
From the United States to the Marshall Islands to Pakistan and the Philippines, countries around the world are experiencing rising rates of floods, heatwaves and natural disasters. Climate change is a...