Anyone can reach millions. Almost no one is trained to.
Capacity building for the creators shaping what the public hears. Alethos trains working creators in verification, source evaluation, and reading primary research, then connects them directly to experts in their field.
Your audience is learning from creators. Nobody trained them.
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62%
of digital content creators do not carry out rigorous, systematic fact-checking before sharing information.
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42%
use the number of likes and shares a post received as their main indicator of whether it is credible.
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73%
say they want training in verification and fact-checking. Source: UNESCO, Behind the Screens (2024), 500 creators in 45 countries.
We don’t decide what’s true. We build the capacity to decide well.
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Verification and source evaluation
How to check a claim, trace it to its origin, and judge the source behind it. Taught by practitioners, not lecturers.
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Working with primary research
How to read a study: its design, its sample, what it shows and what it cannot. Plus correction and accountability practice for when a creator gets it wrong.
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Direct lines to experts
Every creator leaves with direct lines to experts in their own subject area. That relationship is what outlasts the training.
Sponsors choose a field. Never a conclusion.
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Sponsored cohorts
A sponsor selects a field where public understanding matters, such as health, mobility, nutrition, or sport. Alethos designs the curriculum, recruits the experts, and selects the creators.
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Independent by design
Alethos owns the curriculum and the choice of experts. Every sponsorship is disclosed to participants and the public. Creators owe sponsors nothing: no talking points, no required mentions.
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Where no market reaches
As a nonprofit, Alethos’s mission is to bring the same training to creators no commercial program will serve, in emerging markets and underserved communities around the world.
Who is building this.
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Alex Garfin, Founder and Executive Director
Working actor and public figure, studying at Columbia. Cast as a superhero at sixteen, he gained a global audience with no training behind it, and built Alethos for the creators in the same position.
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Nermin Ahmad, Programming Director
Decades of fact-checking and verification work across five continents. Owns the standards: final authority on curriculum rigor and methodological defensibility.
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Advisors
Mitch Prinstein, former Chief of Psychology at the American Psychological Association. Prof. Salma Abbasi, founder of the eWorldwide Group. Cathy Pedrayes, safety and cybersecurity creator. Melissa Bilash, founder of The Grayson School.
Connect with us.
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Support the work
Alethos Inc. is a Delaware nonprofit corporation and an IRS-recognized tax-exempt public charity, EIN 39-4830567.
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For public figures
Our invite-only Private Advisory Service gives public figures a fast, confidential briefing and access to an expert before they speak on an unfamiliar issue.
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Get in touch
Sponsors, partners, experts, and creators: info@alethosinitiative.org