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Ecuador teams build tech to fight election disinformation (Level A1) — a scale with the words fake news on it

Ecuador teams build tech to fight election disinformationCEFR A1

28 Mar 2025

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Adapted from Melissa Vida, Global Voices • CC BY 3.0

Photo by Hartono Creative Studio, Unsplash

Level A1 – Beginner
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  • 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 stopped
    restarted
  • disinformation — false information meant to mislead people
  • organise — plan and run events or activities
    organised
  • hackathon — event where people build software projects together
  • mentor — give advice and help to someone at work
    mentoring
  • journalist — person who writes news for newspapers or media
    journalists

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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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