Watchdog

Watchdog is a multidisciplinary team of factcheckers, journalists, researchers and software engineers. We hunt hoaxes and misinformation, investigate matters of public welfare, and build software tools that help operations like ours.

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Meet the fact-checkers decoding Sri Lanka’s meltdown. From protests to power cuts, Watchdog uses open source research to investigate Sri Lanka’s ongoing political and economic crisis.

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Project(s): Watchdog Protest Tracker

Project type: Publication
Country: Batticaloa, Sri Lanka
Language(s): English
Tech stack: BuiltWith report →
Categories: Factchecking, Fight disinformation, Watchdogging and transparency, Watchdogging the media
Tags: apps
Added: 2022-06-14
Last modified: 2026-07-12T16:44:24.000Z

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Formats: apps
Number of integrations: 0
Geographic focus: Batticaloa, Sri Lanka
Geographic focus — country: "Batticaloa, Sri Lanka "

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