Since 2014, it has contributed to fact-based information circulation in Finland with projects and fact-checks, with a particular focus on national and European Parliamentary election debates.
Faktabaari is a member of the International Fact-Checking Network IFCSN and the NORDIS hub of European Digital Media Observatory EDMO.
Aro claimed that the 2010 air disaster was caused by a Russian bomb attack, which was covered up by the Polish Government.
In 2024 Faktabaari and CheckFirst showed that TikTok's search suggestions contained toxic language towards women and minorities in Finland[6] and that YouTube's algorithm promoted right-wing content in the 2024 Finnish elections.
[8] These include exercises examining claims found in YouTube videos and social media posts, comparing media bias in an array of different "clickbait" articles, probing how misinformation preys on readers' emotions, and getting students to try their hand at writing fake news stories themselves.