Tom Trewinnard

Tom Trewinnard is the Checkdesk Product Lead at Meedan, a social technology nonprofit working on the Checkdesk project to develop collaborative verification tools online. Tom has worked extensively with journalists in some of the Middle East's leading newsrooms, as well as with citizen journalists from across the region, to research the role of citizen journalism in the mainstream coverage of breaking events. Tom curates the verification and viral debunk newsletter The Checklist.