Karen Rebelo works as the deputy editor at BOOM Live, a fact-checking organisation based in Mumbai. Karen is a specialist in reporting about misinformation and disinformation trends in India.She has been instrumental in setting up one of India’s earliest fact-checking websites and establishing newsroom processes that have been adopted by a growing fact-checking community in the country. She has also been a verification trainer. In 2018, she spearheaded fact-checking workshops for journalists across India as part of the Google News Initiative, in which she also helped develop the curriculum. A few of the participants in her workshops have gone on to set up their own fact-checking newsrooms. Karen has a strong interest in the field of artificial intelligence and has written about how generative-AI is being misused to spread misinformation and cause other harm. She is currently pursuing a fellowship at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford.

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