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GlobalFact 2026
June 17–19, 2026, Vilnius, Lithuania
Attendees 300+
Speakers 80+
Sessions 40+
Moving the Industry Forward
While networking and sharing best practices still rank high on the agenda for GlobalFact attendees, the summit also serves as a launchpad for big ideas.
› Achievements born out of previous GlobalFact summits include the IFCN Code of Principles, a set of guidelines for organizations that publish nonpartisan reports, and the establishment of International Fact-Checking Day (April 2).
› The 2026 summit agenda included a dedicated session for participants to share their own wins during the “Show and Tell Showcase,” where participants had 10 minutes to present their projects.
› At the summit’s Global Fact-Checking Awards, achievements in fact-checking journalism were honored with awards for the following categories: impact, cre- ative format, collaboration, and the gold standard.
In 2014, a few dozen fact-checkers gathered in a classroom at the London School of Economics to network and share best practices. Despite their group’s petite size, “we found the live meetings absolutely critical,” said Angie Drobnic Holan, director of the Poynter Institute’s International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN). “Journalism is difficult. It can be high-pressure, it’s subject to lots of public criticism, and we found that fact-checking journalists needed peer support and morale-building.”
Twelve years later, that group has an official name, GlobalFact, and attendance topping 300, making it the world’s largest gathering of fact-checkers. Organized by IFCN, GlobalFact brings together journalists from around the world as well as professionals from IFCN’s 170-plus fact-checking organizations, including Pulitzer Prize-winning PolitiFact and FactCheck.org. The summit provides a rare opportunity for fact-checkers to discuss their most pressing challenges, from the barrage of misinformation and disinformation clogging social media channels to the role artificial intelligence plays in declining media literacy.
This year, GlobalFact convened in Vilnius, Lithuania, a close ally of Ukraine in the Russia-Ukraine war and a target for cross-border information warfare and state-sponsored disinformation, one of the event’s major themes. With combat zones just a few hundred miles away, GlobalFact sessions highlighting journalists from the Baltics and Europe working to combat efforts to undermine independent media felt especially critical.
GlobalFact merged its summit with Lithuanian Radio and Television’s International Investigative Journalism Festival, working with DELFI Melo Detektorius, an IFCN member and Lithuanian fact-checking outfit, as well as LRT (Lithuanian National Radio and Television). “Because we shared so many goals and best practices, it worked out really well,” Holan said, calling it a “win-win” for everyone.
Creating the opportunity for fact-checkers to meet face-to-face, Holan said, has led to a better understanding of their differences as well as commonalities. “We really found that we had a lot more in common than we would’ve ever expected,” she said. “We all fact-checked in similar ways. We found that no matter what country we were from, we shared these values of truth-seeking.”
In 2014, a few dozen fact-checkers gathered in a classroom at the London School of Economics to network and share best practices. Despite their group’s petite size, “we found the live meetings absolutely critical,” said Angie Drobnic Holan, director of the Poynter Institute’s International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN). “Journalism is difficult. It can be high-pressure, it’s subject to lots of public criticism, and we found that fact-checking journalists needed peer support and morale-building.”
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Twelve years later, that group has an official name, GlobalFact, and attendance topping 300, making it the world’s largest gathering of fact-checkers. Organized by IFCN, GlobalFact brings together journalists from around the world as well as professionals from IFCN’s 170-plus fact-checking organizations, including Pulitzer Prize-winning PolitiFact and FactCheck.org. The summit provides a rare opportunity for fact-checkers to discuss their most pressing challenges, from the barrage of misinformation and disinformation clogging social media channels to the role artificial intelligence plays in declining media literacy.
This year, GlobalFact convened in Vilnius, Lithuania, a close ally of Ukraine in the Russia-Ukraine war and a target for cross-border information warfare and state-sponsored disinformation, one of the event’s major themes. With combat zones just a few hundred miles away, GlobalFact sessions highlighting journalists from the Baltics and Europe working to combat efforts to undermine independent media felt especially critical.
GlobalFact merged its summit with Lithuanian Radio and Television’s International Investigative Journalism Festival, working with DELFI Melo Detektorius, an IFCN member and Lithuanian fact-checking outfit, as well as LRT (Lithuanian National Radio and Television). “Because we shared so many goals and best practices, it worked out really well,” Holan said, calling it a “win-win” for everyone.
Creating the opportunity for fact-checkers to meet face-to-face, Holan said, has led to a better understanding of their differences as well as commonalities. “We really found that we had a lot more in common than we would’ve ever expected,” she said. “We all fact-checked in similar ways. We found that no matter what country we were from, we shared these values of truth-seeking.”
Jennifer N. Dienst is Convene‘s senior editor.
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