About me
Uzair led the World's Biggest Election Fact-Check Initiative in India supported by Google. Project Shakti is a consortium of fact-checkers and news publishers with more than 50 organisations working collaboratively during Indian elections to identify misinformation and AI-generated content and amplify fact-checks' reach in more than a dozen languages to nearly one billion voters. He comes from a journalism background focusing on fact-checking. For more than half a decade, he has worked on dismantling misinformation, online hate, and inauthentic behaviour. His expertise spans a diverse range of global events, including the internet shutdown in Kashmir in 2019, Indian elections in 2019, Sri Lanka bombings in 2019, the US elections in 2020, the COVID in Asia-Pacific, Russia-Ukraine conflict, conflicts in Afghanistan & Middle East.