Funding: Media dev org (4)
Declaration on the Ethical and Transparent Use of AI in Media — AI ethics framework developed within UNESCO- and Ethical Journalism Network-supported regional initiative; mandates AI content labelling, human editorial accountability, and risk assessments before AI deployment during elections; adopted December 2024
Automated AI text-to-speech conversion of news articles into audio in the Macedonian language, with Cyrillic script support; developed to improve accessibility for visually impaired readers and older audiences who prefer audio news; manually reviewed before publication to correct AI mispronunciations of numbers
AI image detection used to identify and label an AI-generated photograph misrepresented as depicting an attack on Tel Aviv;" integration of AI detection tools into fact-checking workflow
AI tools used to locate government documents faster and organise internal databases; explicitly does not use AI for content creation;" tools accessed via parent organisation OCCRP infrastructure