A Careful Look at the UNDP’s New iVerify Tool

A Careful Look at the UNDP’s New iVerify Tool
The U.N. Development Programme (UNDP) company logo icon on its website, photographed in New York, on March 18, 2021. Postmodern Studio/Shutterstock
Stavroula Pabst
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The U.N. Development Programme (UNDP) has quietly announced the rollout of an automated anti-disinformation tool, iVerify, this spring. The instrument, initially created to support election integrity, centers a multi-stakeholder approach spanning the public and private sectors to “provide national actors with a support package to enhance identification, monitoring and response capacity to threats to information integrity.”
Stavroula Pabst
Stavroula Pabst
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Stavroula Pabst is a writer, comedian, and media Ph.D. student at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Athens, Greece. Her writing has appeared in publications including Propaganda in Focus, Reductress, Unlimited Hangout, and The Grayzone.
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