iVerify Pakistan AI, Misinformation and fact-checking report

“iVerify is the United Nations Development Programme’s non-partisan fact-checking initiative which is being implemented in Pakistan by the Centre of Excellence in Journalism (CEJ) of the Institute of Business Administration (IBA) in Karachi. It was launched officially in January 2024 with the mission to empower people with verified and reliable information. The project has been launched in different countries by UNDP with national counterparts to support actors around the world in the prevention and mitigation of disinformation, misinformation and hate speech.”

“This report does just that: it presents iVerify’s findings, data and analysis after monitoring and engaging with AI through its work. We didn’t set out to write this report focusing on AI but as the world shifted its focus, so did iVerify’s work in fact-checking. While we identified patterns, perpetrators, and types of misinformation and disinformation during 2024, AI creeped into each aspect in 2025, and set the tone for 2026.”