Media leaders and organizations will join to discuss regressive narratives and disinformation in Guatemala. They will share how alliances and collaborative projects are a powerful response for greater reach and greater security.

Ocote, a digital media outlet coordinated mostly by women, leads three alliances: La Luciérnaga: a project for fact-checking and combating disinformation in Mayan languages; La linterna: the first collaborative electoral fact-checking project in Guatemala; and Liga Linterna: a citizen alliance between media, universities and social organizations to promote citizenship and democracy. This conversation will discuss the challenges these initiatives have overcome in recent years related to freedom of expression and criminalization. Learn how these new objectives confront disinformation and the closure of spaces, and how collaboration is an vital way to strengthen democracy and social cohesion.