The Washington Post often focus on how they can combat the spread of misinformation, including articles such as and .
The Washington Post has also announced its participation in 鈥淪tory Killers,鈥� an international investigative project led by Forbidden Stories, a nonprofit news organization based in Paris. The investigation reveals new details about disinformation, the reputation management industry and the price we all pay for online abuse that silences women journalists.
This project is a collaborative investigation led by Forbidden Stories, an international consortium that pursues the work of assassinated journalists. The investigation was inspired by the work of Gauri Lankesh, an editor who was fatally shot in 2017 following her reporting on disinformation in India. This project involved more than 100 journalists from 30 news organizations, including The Guardian, Der Spiegel, Le Monde, Haaretz and El Pa铆s.
This is the fifth major consortium project the Post has participated in. Others included , , and . The project will publish as an occasional series beginning February 14, 2023. Read the first instalment .