Laura Zommer is the general director at Chequeado.com, a non-governmental, non-profit and non-partisan organization, which was founded in October 2010. It was the first fact-checking organization in Latin America and one of the first ten in the world.

Chequeado’s method is to verify public discourse, fight against disinformation and promote access to information and the availability of data, to contribute to improving the quality of public debate and thus strengthen the democratic system.

To this end, it has developed and tested numerous fact-checking tools, applications and platforms, to pursue creative formats that help to explain its results.

In addition to the video editing software on Instagram and TikTok, Zommer explains that there are several free online resources that contribute to the laboratory’s objective of scaling up fact-checking. These are all used by Chequeado.com

One of these is Canva, a free online graphic design tool that allows users to create publications for social networks, presentations, posters and videos. It does not require design experience and offers a free and a premium version.

To transfer your findings into graphics, maps and interactive stories, Zommer recommends Flourish, which is also online and free.

Infogram is an intuitive visualization tool that allows users to create infographics.

OBS is a free, open-source software to record videos and broadcast live.

You can explore more tools including Games for News, developed by Convoca to develop interactive games, and resources to create podcasts.