Check (by Meedan)
A verification workspace built for journalists and fact-checkers to collect and check public tips, images and claims.
Careful with sensitive material
Never put this into it
Check is designed to receive content from the public, social media posts, forwarded tips, images, and claims that need verification, which is a different situation from your organisation's own internal case files. Do not use a Check tipline or workspace to store a source's real identity, a witness's exact location, or unpublished internal investigation notes; keep that material in a tool your organisation controls directly, and use Check only for content that is already circulating publicly or that a source has explicitly agreed to share for verification.
Check is a workspace for verifying claims. A small team collects tips from the public over WhatsApp, Telegram and similar apps, then works through them in one shared queue: who is checking what, what has been confirmed, what is ready to publish.
Meedan is a nonprofit and built Check for journalists and fact-checkers, so it fits monitoring and newsroom work in a way a general chatbot does not. Its strength is the workflow, not a clever model.
Getting a Check workspace is a conversation with Meedan, not a signup form. An organisation with a system administrator can skip that and run the open source version on its own server.
What happens to your data
Where this data goes
- Meedan servers, or your own if you self-host the open source code
Trains on what you type?
Not documented by the vendor.
How long it is kept
Meedan is a nonprofit that built Check specifically for journalists and fact-checkers, and the underlying code (check-api, check-web) is published as open source under the MIT licence, so an organisation with technical capacity can self-host it. No explicit statement about whether content submitted to Meedan's own hosted Check service is used to train AI models was found on Meedan's public pages as of this entry's verification date; ask Meedan directly before relying on their hosted tiplines for anything sensitive.
Account required
- An email address
Getting it, and using it in Iraq
Access in Iraq
Meedan has supported tiplines and civic engagement work worldwide, including in the Middle East, but no explicit country availability list was found for this entry. Access to Meedan's hosted service is arranged directly with Meedan rather than through open self-signup. Self-hosting the open source code removes this question, subject to your own hosting location.
Language quality
No one has published a measurement for this.
Arabic (Modern Standard)
Meedan reports supporting 34 languages and dialects across its tiplines but does not publish a per-language accuracy figure for any AI-assisted feature, and no independent benchmark was run. Untested.
Iraqi Arabic
No dialect-specific benchmark exists or was checked for this entry. Untested.
Kurdish (Sorani)
No benchmark or vendor documentation on Kurdish Sorani support was found or checked for this entry. Untested.
Sources
Last checked: 2026-08-31