Divya Chandra is Producer, Workshops and Training at BOOM FactCheck. She conducts training sessions and LIVE workshops to teach the art of fact-checking and media literacy.
Apart from various online workshops in fact-checking, she has conducted several offline sessions for journalists, journalism students, engineering students and the general public with some of them being. held in Bhutan, IIT Madras, SOAS London, among others.
To create more awareness and educate the masses about the misinformation industry, she produces a weekly newsletter- Verified by BOOM wherein she discusses the fact-checking space in great detail and teaches tools and techniques to debunk false claims that you see online.
Previously, she was Correspondent-Fact Check at The Quint where she was actively involved in debunking online misinformation. Apart from the regular debunks, she also ventured into several deep dives in the field of psychology of misinformation. She did her Masters in Journalism from Symbiosis Institute of Media & Communication, Pune and pursued Bachelor in Engineering from PESIT, Bengaluru. When not fact-checking, you can find her at a cafe next door.