Productivity · News · 🇧🇷 Brazil
Journalists from Folha, Aos Fatos and Núcleo discuss how they use AI
Knight Center roundtable: newsrooms use AI to translate, create scripts and fact-check.
- Profession
- Journalist
- Tools
- IA generativa
- Country
- 🇧🇷 Brazil
- Report date
- March 31, 2026
- Verified on
- October 24, 2026
What they did
Editors and directors from Folha, Aos Fatos, Núcleo and Intercept shared how they use AI in newsrooms, and the risks.
How it went
More than 200 people attended. The account gives no numbers.
Good to know
AI fact-checking also needs to be checked. Record when a text used AI.
The prompt
List the checkable claims in this text [paste] in a table: claim, what type of source would confirm it, and where to look (agency, database). Don't say whether it is true.
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