Combating Disinformation with AI: AskVera.org

Laura Linck de Romero, our Leadership Fellow, volunteers with the NGO LaRéponse.tech, contributing to the development of AskVera.org, a free AI-based service that helps citizens verify information in real time and foster constructive public dialogue. Connected to hundreds of trusted fact-checking outlets, Vera has answered over 500,000 questions from French citizens and is now expanding into Francophone Africa. The initiative has been featured in France Info and 20 Minutes, and it inspired the Forward College student project NoCap, which Laura mentored. Her volunteer work focuses on UX research, partnerships, and strategy, supporting global efforts to counter one of the World Economic Forum’s top three global risks: disinformation.