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Ecuador teams build tech to fight election disinformationCEFR A1
28 Mar 2025
Adapted from Melissa Vida, Global Voices • CC BY 3.0
Photo by Hartono Creative Studio, Unsplash
Level A1 – BeginnerCEFR A1
2 min
66 words
- A group in Ecuador restarted the local Hacks Hackers chapter.
- They wanted to fight election disinformation with technology.
- They organised meetings and a conference in February.
- Later they ran a hackathon at a university.
- Developers, journalists and researchers worked together on projects.
- Teams built AI tools to check news and explain them.
- Three teams won prizes and got mentoring.
- Organisers plan to keep developing the projects.
Difficult words
- restart — to start again something that stoppedrestarted
- disinformation — false information meant to mislead people
- organise — plan and run events or activitiesorganised
- hackathon — event where people build software projects together
- mentor — give advice and help to someone at workmentoring
- journalist — person who writes news for newspapers or mediajournalists
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Discussion questions
- Would you like to join a hackathon?
- Have you ever worked in a team on a project?
- Which job would you choose: developer, journalist, or researcher?
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