Misinformation doesn't speak one language. Our tools do.

Research cited in the article shows misinformation often spreads in non-English languages that current fact-checking systems cannot read.

Most claim-verification datasets and production tools are still English-only, leaving major misinformation ecosystems undercovered.

The author says they are expanding Sift, an open-source fact-checking pipeline, into a multilingual system.

The effort draws on cross-lingual transfer and models such as XLM-RoBERTa to better detect misinformation across languages, including in high-use platforms like WhatsApp in India.