"I communicate with her through a friend who's a journalist and has an internet connection. I tell him, can you tell my mom this? Or can you check in on her? And then he'll talk to her. The Iranian government has shut down the internet inside the country, cutting off Iranians from the outside world and leaving state media as one of their only sources of information."
"It's been nonstop crisis mode for us since the protests began late December. We were just verifying everything, going through it using open-source techniques. And that's been our method since day one - we're only using open-source content to verify everything, because we're not on the ground."
"We did, however, do a joint investigation with The Guardian based on 78 medical images that we received from a hospital in a major city in Iran. We did an analysis on how the repression was being conducted. That was the only time we reported on something that others didn't have access to."
Farhad Souzanchi, an Iranian fact-checker using a pseudonym for safety, runs Factnameh from Toronto and works up to 14 hours daily debunking misinformation about Iran's war and preceding uprisings. His team of 10 operates in shifts, using open-source verification methods since they lack ground access. The Iranian government has shut down internet access, leaving state media as the primary information source for citizens. Souzanchi communicates with his mother through an intermediary journalist. Since protests began in late December, his team has operated in continuous crisis mode, verifying information through open-source content. Their only exclusive reporting involved a joint investigation with The Guardian analyzing 78 medical images from an Iranian hospital documenting repression methods.
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