The International Fact-Checking Network strongly condemns recent attacks on the integrity of the fact-checking organization Faktoje of Albania. Faktoje is a reputable organization with a strong track record and operates within all the standards of transparency, independence and accuracy required by the IFCN Code of Principles.

Other media outlets are using Faktoje’s own transparency about its funding to attack it and its director, Klodiana Kapo. This coordinated campaign is aimed at undermining the impact of Faktoje’s important work. The attacks are using financial information that the organization publishes voluntarily, but stripping it of context and mischaracterizing its influence.

Based on financial data made public under the IFCN’s Code of Principles rules about transparency, attacks have misrepresented ordinary and legal transactions as something sinister.…