5/27/22, 7:10 PM Faster facts: The rapid expansion of fact-checking – News in Asia Vietnam News Agency’s ‘No Fake News’ features rap group Da Lab, and has reached millions of people through television, online news and social media. The trailer for the ‘anti-hoax’ family drama series produced by Mafindo in Indonesia. Video-based tutorials targeting the audience are also becoming more common across the region. The Philippines’ VERA Files launched a six-part YouTube series called ‘Promise, Walang Lokohan’ (Promise, No Fooling Around) 25 in October 2020, alongside its in-person training for students and local reporters, and a fact-checking manual published in 2018. 26 Taiwan’s FactCheck Center also created a series of video lessons and fact-checking challenges on topics like geolocation and vehicle license plate identification. 27 IMAGE factcheckvn / TikTok @factcheckvn has a large following on TikTok, describing itself as ‘Vietnam News Agency’s Gateway to Generation Z’. https://newsinasia.jninstitute.org/chapter/faster-facts-the-rapid-expansion-of-fact-checking/ 9/13