Three leading voices in disinformation, investigative journalism and media sustainability are confirmed as keynote speakers at GlobalFact 2026.
Nina Jankowicz, Jane Lytvynenko and Peter Erdelyi will take the stage at the annual summit, co-organized by European Fact-Checking Standards Network, International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) at Poynter, and Delfi, June 17-19 in Vilnius alongside the International Investigative Journalism Festival organized by LRT in partnership with the Lithuanian Journalism Center.
This year’s keynote speakers bring together expertise across disinformation, investigative journalism and media sustainability.
Nina Jankowicz is one of the foremost experts on disinformation and its role in international relations: Time magazine recently named her one of the 100 most influential people in artificial intelligence. She is the co-founder and CEO of the American Sunlight Project and the author of “How to Lose the Information War” and “How to be a Woman Online.”
Jane Lytvynenko is an award-winning journalist at NBC News covering technology, conflict and information manipulation, with a particular focus on Russia’s war against Ukraine, a conflict of deep personal significance to her as someone born in Kyiv. She also regularly trains journalists in OSINT techniques and investigative reporting.
Peter Erdelyi is the founding director of the Center for Sustainable Media in Budapest and the author of the widely-read Media Finance Monitor newsletter, with two decades of experience launching digital outlets and researching media finance across audience revenues, grant funding and strategic planning.
Over the 3-day summit, the programme spans more than 50 sessions covering the challenges that matter most to our community right now. How fact-checkers can incorporate AI in their daily work, and what it means for the information environment when AI models handle politically contested claims. The EFCSN will present at the conference on turning fact-checking into sustainable information infrastructure, a question that sits at the heart of what our network does.
Beyond that, the programme goes into the specific contexts where disinformation does real damage: the Russia-Ukraine war, health and science misinformation, climate, financial fraud, and how fact-checkers operate under restricted media systems. Practitioners from across Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, North America, and Africa and the Middle East will be in the room.
More details and registration at: https://register.globalfactconference.org/.
About the European Fact-Checking Standards Network
The European Fact-Checking Standards Network is an association of fact-checking organizations who commit to the standards of independence, transparency, and journalistic quality outlined in the European Code of Standards for Independent Fact-Checking Organisations. With over 60 verified members across Europe, the EFCSN is the voice of European fact-checkers.
