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Meedan Check
San Francisco, California, United States
What it is
Meedan Check is an open-source platform for collaborative fact-checking and media annotation. It helps independent media, civil society and human rights organizations organize work during elections, protest movements and public health emergencies. Partners can operate tiplines that collect community submissions through WhatsApp, Messenger, Telegram, LINE and Viber. Multilingual AI tools help identify trends and group videos, images and audio in shared workspaces. Check supports text, URLs, images, video and audio, with assisted fact-checking, claim detection, citation links, a browser extension and API access. In 2025, Meedan says the service supported 34 languages and dialects, served 143,631 unique users and powered 58 tiplines. Listed integrations include WhatsApp Business API, Zendesk Sunshine Conversations, Slack and Zapier. Meedan says data is hosted in Ireland, encrypted at rest and in transit, access is limited, and organizations control sharing through explicit consent.
For and against
For
- Open-source collaborative fact-checking platform
- Collects community content across five messaging channels
- Supports text, images, video and audio
- Includes browser extension and API access
- Provides multilingual AI organization tools
Against
- Users must be over 18
- API use is subject to terms limiting excessive calls
- Deleting a workspace removes its data
The verdict
Meedan Check combines intake channels, collaborative annotation and multilingual media analysis for organizational fact-checking. Its open-source model and API support are notable, while age and API-use conditions should be reviewed first.
Who it suits
Check suits independent media, civil society and human rights organizations coordinating verification or community information work. It is intended for teams using multilingual content, messaging tiplines and collaborative review.
On the record
- 2025 usage
- In 2025, Check supported 34 languages and dialects, served 143,631 unique users, and powered 58 tiplines.meedan.org · read 7 Oct 2026
- AI and language services
- The Check subprocessor list says AWS provides video transcription and OCR, Google Cloud API provides violent image detection and language identification, and OpenAI supports menuless tiplines and some similarity matching.meedan.org · read 7 Oct 2026
- AI tools
- Multilingual AI tools work with videos, images, and audio files in partners’ workspaces.meedan.org · read 7 Oct 2026
- API
- Meedan says some services may be available through APIs, subject to API terms that prohibit excessive calls and misuse of API tokens.meedan.org · read 7 Oct 2026
- Collaboration
- Check lets organizations work with groups they trust to meet their communities’ information needs.meedan.org · read 7 Oct 2026
- Data control
- Meedan says the organization controls its Check data and that data is shared only with explicit consent.meedan.org · read 7 Oct 2026
- Data deletion
- Deleting a Check workspace deletes its data, while deleting an individual account removes personally identifiable information but retains that user’s workspace contributions.meedan.org · read 7 Oct 2026
- Hosting
- Meedan says Check data is hosted in Ireland.meedan.org · read 7 Oct 2026
- Hosting and security
- Meedan’s Check privacy FAQ says Check data is hosted in Ireland and protected with encryption at rest and in transit, with access limited.meedan.org · read 7 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Meedan lists WhatsApp Business API for messaging, Zendesk Sunshine Conversations for omnichannel conversations, Slack for activity notifications, and Zapier for importing public RSS feeds as Check subprocessors.meedan.org · read 7 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- Meedan describes Check as supporting media organizations and civic engagement groups working to promote healthy information ecosystems.meedan.org · read 7 Oct 2026
- Media analysis
- Multilingual AI tools help partners spot trends and group videos, images, and audio files in their workspaces.meedan.org · read 7 Oct 2026
- Messaging channels
- Partners can run tiplines that collect community content through WhatsApp, Messenger, Telegram, LINE, and Viber.meedan.org · read 7 Oct 2026
- Notable limit
- Check’s terms say users must be over 18 to use the services.meedan.org · read 7 Oct 2026
- Open source
- Meedan’s 2020 post says Check is an open-source collaborative fact-checking and media annotation platform with an API and browser extension.meedan.org · read 7 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Check helps media organizations and civic engagement groups run fact-checking efforts during elections, protest movements, and public health emergencies.meedan.org · read 7 Oct 2026
- Security
- Meedan says it encrypts data at rest and in transit and limits access to data.meedan.org · read 7 Oct 2026
- Support
- Meedan’s Check privacy FAQ directs questions to [email protected] and says the Check software license agreement describes product support, service levels, response times, and payment terms.meedan.org · read 7 Oct 2026
