Meedan Inc.

“The Meedan Board of Directors is presented with the DRAFT 990 in electronic form and a vote is taken to approve the DRAFT 990. The final 990 is then distributed to the Meedan Board of Directors in electronic form.”

“At each contracting event, the Meedan Board of Directors is informed of any potential conflict of interest. If the Board determines there is a conflict of interest it will deliberate on this matter, excluding from deliberations and voting any Board of Directors member participating in this conflicted interest.”

“The CEOs original contract with the Organization was evaluated by the Board of Directors with a review of the commensurate compensation in 2006. The CEOs 2016 contract was evaluated by the Board of Directors.”

“All key employees are offered contracts that use Glassdoor or similiar job compensation data to determine appropriate compensation.”

“The Organization makes its governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements available to the public upon request.”

“CMDb - a publicly accessible database of claims and memes intended to both serve as an ongoing data resource for our fact-checking software, and to create a resource for researchers working in the dis and misinformation field. Digital Health Lab - an initiative to bring new approaches to the challenges of health information access and equity.”

“Other fees for service expenses are contractor payments for Software Design, Engineering and Media Partners.”

“Program Service Accomplishments - Check - continued from Page 2Built around our core open source collaborative media annotation and misinformation response workflow tool, Check, and implemented through programs including Check Global, run by Meedan in partnership with Birmingham City University, with funding from Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA), Check Message, our product that enables third party fact-checkers to set up tiplines on WhatsApp and other closed messaging applications, and the Pop-Up Newsroom, which conducts global election monitoring projects. All aspects of the Check project share a goal of improving digital literacy, community-building and political engagement skills for citizen journalists, activists, journalism students, civil society organizations, and human rights defenders, thus strengthening their role as investigators and contributors to the public sphere.We provide training, develop software, run programming, and conduct research with a global network of independent media and human rights organizations, fact-checking initiatives and journalism schools in Latin America, East Africa, Asia-Pacific (APAC) and the North Africa/West Asia (NAWA) region.We are committed to strengthening the capacities of our partners to use media and technology to:Counter the rise of misinformation and disinformation;Provide credible information and address inequalities in access to information; Develop media literacy skills so they, and the communities they work with, are better equipped to hold public figures to account. Meedans Digital Health Lab expresses the technology, research, and ethical program design approach we have built into online health information projects. Founded in 2018 with support from the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation (RWJF) the labs work is researching, designing and testing a digital response framework for addressing health misinformation online, centered around accessibility and equity.”