NewsMobile is an independent news organisation founded by award-winning journalist Saurabh Shukla in 2014. The other co-founder is Dr SC Shukla, media academic and founder and principal of Delhi College of Arts and Commerce, who was the winner of the National Press Award.
www.newsmobile.in (NewsMobile) is the news and content platform of World Mobile News Network Pvt Ltd, a private limited company registered in India. Our funding was provided by our co-founders who are senior journalists and media academics from their personal savings. As an unbiased and objective digital news platform, powered by cutting-edge technology, our aim is to highlight stories that impact people and present credible and fact-checked stories to our readers. NewsMobile, founded in India, is now a global fact checker with operations in India, Asia Pacific and the US. Our aim is to solve the biggest problem of misinformation globally with a focus on debunking misinformation in communities.
Our journalists are objective and we have a policy that ensures that they are not affiliated to any political party or advocacy group. We believe in providing fair and transparent editorial opinions.
As an unbiased and objective digital news platform, we are driven by a passionate young team of experienced fact-checkers, empowered by cutting-edge technology. Our mission is to highlight stories that impact people’s lives and provide our readers with credible, fact-checked information.
NewsMobile, founded in India, is now a global fact checker with operations in India, Asia Pacific and the US. We aim to solve the biggest problem of misinformation globally with a focus on debunking misinformation in communities.
We follow a fair and transparent editorial policy using our strong network of journalists spread across the country who are experienced. NewsMobile follows a policy to ensure that its team is not affiliated with any political party or advocacy group.
In 2023, NewsMobile was invited by the Chief Election Commissioner to conduct a workshop on fact-checking for elections for India’s independent Election Commission & the entire election commission leadership team and the Chief Election Officers from all states in India.
NewsMobile meticulously worked on the entire design of this workshop and made it highly interactive.
In recognition of NewsMobile’s pioneering work on fact-checking, in June 2023, NewsMobile won the Global Fact Fund BUILD Grant provided by IFCN and funded by Google & YouTube. READ DETAILS HERE
ChunavShaala, a collaborative initiative by NewsMobile and the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) at Poynter, was created to combat election-related misinformation in India. Through interactive sessions and workshops, the project empowered individuals with the skills to discern truth from falsehood, fostering a more informed electorate.
As part of this initiative, NewsMobile trained regional trainers across India, to educate voters about election-related misinformation and disinformation. The trainers conducted awareness campaigns across states and districts of India, including Delhi, Gurgaon, Manesar, Lucknow, Bhopal, Jaipur, Amritsar, Kolkata, Patna, and Indore.
Over 2,000 individuals directly participated in these campaigns and thousands more were trained by sub trainers. ChunavShaala also established new collaborations with local organizations, and educational institutions, significantly enhancing the initiative’s reach and impact.
NewsMobile participated in Global Fact 11 at Sarajevo. We have been focusing extensively on debunking AI-generated disinformation/misinformation, especially deepfakes.
NEWSMOBILE AT G20
During India’s G20 Presidency in 2023, NewsMobile partnered with Meta to debunk misinformation/disinformation related to the Summit and National/Internal Security.
India’s G20 Presidency revitalised multilateralism, showcasing its capacity to unite both developing and developed nations on the critical issues facing the world.
NewsMobile’s team of experienced fact-checkers were prompt and thorough in debunking all the misinformation which occurred in the context of the G20 Summit and National/Internal Security at the time and established a strong collaboration with key stakeholders involved in G20 operations, ensuring accurate information dissemination and dispelling any misinformation surrounding the summit.
NewsMobile, under the patronage of Editor-in-Chief Saurabh Shukla, was invited to be a part of the coveted media team at the Bharat Mandapam during the G20 Leaders’ Summit in September 2023.
Saurabh hosted a dedicated fact-checking show from Bharat Mandapam, focused exclusively on the G20 Summit. This show played a vital role in disseminating accurate information and countering misinformation.
More of NewsMobile’s G20 Coverage can be seen here, here, here, here and here.
In 2023, our founder spoke at the UN in New York on the topic of fact-checking in the age of AI, suggesting ways to strengthen the fact-checking movement and how NewsMobile was debunking generative AI posts.
In 2023, NewsMobile launched a WhatsApp Channel for our direct connect with our audience. Within eight months, NewsMobile’s fact checks and content reached over 2.2 million followers. NewsMobile has the highest following amongst independent fact-checking media companies globally. (Click Here)
Earlier we were selected amongst the world’s leading fact-checkers to be a part of the Meta Global Accelerator Program (Learn more). Post that, we have successfully launched the Fact Check weekly Newsletter called FactMobile, to spread awareness about fact-checking.
Our Editor-in-Chief, Saurabh Shukla joined Meta’s Global Fact Checkers Consulting Group in 2021-2022 and suggested ideas on media literacy and collaboration between fact-checkers globally.
NewsMobile is the only Indian Fact Checker and the only one from Asia to have won the IFCN Global Tech Innovation Challenge in 2020 to work on detecting DeepFakes.
Through its network of influencers, academicians, doctors, journalists and stringers and the social media community, NewsMobile is constantly innovating and endeavours to bring highly researched and accurate fact-checked news to the forefront.
NewsMobile is a signatory of the IFCN code of principles and has front-line expertise in creating media literacy content and delivering media literacy training in fact-checking and counter-misinformation operations.
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In 2020: NewsMobile and Logically announced an exciting partnership, rolling out a range of election and information integrity products across South East Asia – Including India, Singapore and the US. The partnership combines the best of editorial and fact-checking services with the best in anti-misinformation technology to create a range of tools and products – ensuring information integrity, in a time where misinformation has plagued today’s “post-truth” society.
The Economic Times featured NewsMobile’s efforts at busting fake news centred around COVID-19 vaccines. READ HERE
NewsMobile is a signatory of the IFCN code of principles and has front-line expertise in creating media literacy content and delivering media literacy training in fact-checking and counter-misinformation operations.
Attached below are links where NewsMobile has been covered for its efforts on fact-checking. Founder & Editor in Chief Saurabh Shukla’s interview by BBC on the menace of misinformation
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Team NewsMobile interacted and exchanged ideas for media literacy and the future of fact-checking with the IFCN Director Angie Holan, Bill Adair, Duke University and professionals from the global Fact checking community at global fact 10 in Seoul, South Korea
‘NewsMobile in News’
https://web.archive.org/web/20240101012319if_/https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2020/the-second-round-of-the-fact-checking-innovation-initiative-awards-five-new-projects/embed/#?secret=9EucJWA2I6
https://web.archive.org/web/20240101012319if_/https://www.zee5.com/articles/fact-checking-organisation-newsmobile-selected-for-facebooks-accelerator-challenge/embed#?secret=voi0ubNMpU
In 2020 NewsMobile methodology also won acclaim from IFCN as our fact check was declared ‘The Fact Check Of The Week’. READ HERE
NewsMobile Funding
In 2023-2024, Meta Platforms, Inc. contributed to more than 5% of our total funding.
NewsMobile shares Fact Checking Best Practices
NewsMobile Editor-in-Chief, Saurabh Shukla, was featured on a special show on India’s national radio station, the All India Radio (AIR), which is heard by millions of people. He spoke about the efforts of NewsMobile, IFCN and Facebook to curb fake news.
He has also spoken at the Harvard India Conference in February 2019 on how to curb misinformation and NewsMobile’s efforts to curb the spread of FAKE news.
Link here – NM Fact Checker
