text: Reuters received the biggest grant.
  The purpose of the grant is to help the organizations scale-up their COVID-19 vaccines skepticism fighting projects. Many countries around the globe are in the first stages of their vaccine programs.
  Due to the urgency of "credible" sources of vaccine information, recipients of the grant have until May 31 to launch their projects.
  The organizations that have received funding from the grant include, Reuters (USA), VishvasNews (India), Liputan6.com (Indonesia), Aos Fatos (Brazil), EFE Verifica (Spain), Africa Check (South Africa), and Full Fact (UK). Reuters received the largest portion of the grant, $97,000, for its ¡Confirma! Project, which focuses on the Hispanic population in the US and Mexico.
  The seven organizations were selected from a pool of over 70 applicants. The selection panel included individuals from the fact-checking community, as well as representatives from both WhatsApp and IFCN.
  "The selected projects represent well the versatile efforts of the global fact-checking community to improve its efficiency in fighting health and vaccine-related misinformation," said Laurens Lauer, an associate researcher at the Duisburg-Essen University who was part of the selection panel. "Their recognition is truly deserved."
  This is the second collaboration between WhatsApp and IFCN to fight COVID-19 misinformation.
  In 2020, the two partnered to support the efforts of the CoronaVirus Facts Alliance, which created a searchable database of reliable information vetted by more than 90 fact-checking organizations from 70 countries across the globe.