Financial Resources

From April 2016, when Teyit's first meeting was held, to December 2017, we received office space, lunch contributions, and mentorship support from Istasyon TEDU Center for Social Innovation. Under the consultancy and mentorship of Istasyon, we shaped the company's vision for the future, developed business models, and created team management and communication strategies.

With an application to EU Sivil Düşün Program entitled "publishing teyit.org website", we received ₺9.770,00 communication support. As a part of this, we built the teyit.org website, covered its six-month hosting expenses, published the Turkish translation of the Verification Handbook, and distributed the Verification Handbook free of charge to the non-governmental organizations and media organizations that requested it. Per the program rules, the budget was not transferred to Teyit and was spent on behalf of the Teyit by Sivil Düşün.

We received £48.052,00 for our the application entitled "Kriz anlarında doğrulanmış ve doğru haber için portal geliştirilmesi" (Developing portal for verified news during times of crisis) to the U.K. Ankara Embassy's Bilateral Programme Fund. The 5-month work that started in November 2016 and ended in March 2017 covered the salaries and insurance costs of two editors, expanses of business visits to London and Istanbul, development of the beta version of software named dubito, which facilitates the workflow of editors, and teyit.link, which archives webpages, and preparation of a guide for the training of educators.

We received €111.300,00 for an application to European Endowment for Democracy entitled “teyit.org - fact-checking study group." With 13 months of work between February 2017 and April 2018, Teyit's institutionalization costs, salaries and insurance costs of four editors, legal expenses, accounting costs, subscription to digital tools that facilitate fact-checking processes, visual and multimedia design costs, design and publication of an insight report titled “İnternette nelerden şüphe ediyoruz?” (What do we suspect on the Internet?), business model development, consulting expenses for social impact measurement, travel expenses to the Journalism Festival for two editors, and hosting and website maintenance expenses were covered.

Teyit launched a support campaign in February 2018 to reduce the share of funds in the budget and move to a structure where user support weighs. With monthly contributions on Patreon, in 2018, we received $4.517,00 support. We used this user support to cover Teyit's Ankara office. Thank you to all our supporters for their contribution.

Teyit signed a contract with Facebook in May 2018 and became Facebook's third-party news fact-checking organization in Turkey. As a part of this collaboration, Teyit flags false news on Facebook and redirects them to the analysis pieces published on the Teyit website, and Facebook restricts these posts' visibility for them to reach fewer users.
As a result of this collaboration, Teyit received $101.500,00. This revenue was spent on the salary, insurance, and premium expenses of both the existing team members and the new members, setting up a new office in Istanbul, covering the expenses of the new office, and production expenses that the video team in Istanbul needed.

Click here to learn more about Facebook’s third-party fact-checking program.

We received ₺109.000,00 with an application to the Consulate of Sweden the Section for Turkish-Swedish Cooperation's Bilateral Cooperation Programme, entitled "Kutuplaşma karşısında bilgi aktivizmi" (Information activism in the face of polarization). As a part of the project, which started in March 2018 and continued until December 2019, we employed a project assistant and conducted a survey on media habits of the news consumers on the Internet. The findings of the study was reported in December 2018, with the title “Medya Kullanımı ve Haber Tüketimi: Güven, Doğrulama, Siyasi Kutuplaşmalar” (Media Use and News Consumption: Trust, Verification, Political Polarizations).

In December 2018, with the application for Communication Support to EU Sivil Düşün Program, we translated the report titled “Medya Kullanımı ve Haber Tüketimi: Güven, Doğrulama, Siyasi Kutuplaşmalar” into English and published one hundred copies each.

We received $39.545,67 with an application titled "Factory: Yanlış bilgiyle mücadele için inovasyon ve tasarım" (Factory: Innovation and design to fight misinformation) to the U.S. Embassy's Large Grant Program. As a part of the study, which started in September 2018 and lasted until June 2019, we organized design sprint events in Ankara and Istanbul to bring participants from different disciplines together and to produce new prototypes that could solve the misinformation problem. Designed for more actors to find solutions to the misinformation problem, Factory proposed 7 new solutions in 2019, with the final event in Ankara.

Teyit launched a support campaign in February 2018 to reduce the share of funds in the budget and move to a structure where user support weighs. In 2019, we received $5,511.00 through monthly contributions via Patreon. We used these contributions to cover the expenses of Teyit's Ankara and Istanbul offices. Thank you to all our supporters for their contribution.

To be among the contributors, please visit www.patreon.com/teyitorg . Active supporters;

Adem Aydil, Ahmet Çakan, Ahmet Yıldız, Ahmet Raşit YILMAZ, Ahmet Levent Tasel, Akın Rota, Ali Özcan, Ali KARABEY, Ali Burak Parım, Ali Diker, Alican Aktürk, Alper C., Anil Can Baykal, Anonymous, Aysen Ertur, Ayşegül Engür, Bağış Erten, Barış Bilgen, Başak Bostancıoğlu, Bekir Alper Paksoy, Berivan Elis, Bilgehan Bahçivan, Bulent Can Ulas, Burak Ersoy, Burak Direk, Burcu gunduz, Burkay Ozturk, Cabir Yavuz, caglar cakmak, cagtaa, Can Karalar, Can Kavanoz, Can Çitoğlu, Celil Bozkurt, Cembora Güngörmüş, Cenk Altı, Ceylan Özdem, Cinar Gercek, Çağrı Yalçın, Deniz Oguz, Deniz Irsıdar Uludağ, Derya Sel Bozkurt, Dincay Akcoren, Dr.K.Murat Ekşioğlu, Ege Ergenekon, Emin Okutan, Emre Kurt, Emre Koyuncu, Emre Toku, Engin Guven, Engin Ulusoy, engin polat, Eray Erdoğan, Eray Uysal, Erdal Karayazgan, Ertuğrul Ceylan, Evren Akal, Ezgi Yetim Arsava, Ezgi Guldal, Fatih Alp, Ferhan Ture, girisimci muhabbeti, gonca, GUZIN BEGUM ERDA, GÜLAY YÜCEL, hakan bilginer, Halit Kaya, Hamit Levent Evci, Hasan Zafer Elcik, Hatice ULAŞ, Hayrettiny Çelik, hüseyin dinçol, Irmak Alici, Itır Erhart, İbrahim Nail Acar, ibrahim sivrikaya, john doe, Kadir Kutlu Kaya, Gökçe Dinçyürek, Kaya Akan, Levent Başaran, Mark Stencel, Maytap, Mehmet akif erek, Melike Ceren İnan, Melike Olgu Okumus, Mert, Mert Torun, Merve Nur Okutan, Mesut Çiçek, Mustafa İncel, Mustafa tosmur, Mustafa Basaran, Mustafa Yaşar Soydaş, nihan gider, Oktay Kilic, Oray Egin, Orhan Somuncu, Orkut Murat Yılmaz, Osman Coskunoglu, Ozan Dizman, Özgün Dünyaoğulları, PELİN PERVİN ÇAVUŞ, Pelin Çiftci, Reha Özer, Renay Onur, S k, Sam Dubberley, Sami Can Tandoğdu, Selkan Kaya, Serhan Lokman, Serhat Bilyaz, Sinan Direk, Sunay Demircan, T Emre, Tamer Aktaş, Taner yavuz, Tolga YILDIRIM, Tolga İnam, Tuğçe Işıkdoğdu, Turgut Derman, Tutku Sönmez, Tülay Atila, Uğur Cevdet Aykaç, Volkan Ercan Varlı, Yavuz Arslan, yesatalim, Yusuf Ziya Uyanık, Zafer Ipekci, Zafer Gunduz, Zeynep Meydanoğlu, ZÜHTÜ KAYALI and 1 anonymous.

Thank you to all our supporters.

Teyit signed an agreement with Facebook in May 2018 and became Facebook's third-party news verification organization in Turkey. As a part of this collaboration, Teyit flags false news on Facebook and redirects them to the analysis pieces published on the Teyit website, and Facebook restricts these posts' visibility for them to reach fewer users. Under this collaboration, we received $360,100.00 in 2019. While most of the revenue from Facebook was spent on the human resources expenses, a larger office was rented for the Teyit team in Ankara and the interior design of the office was made according to the needs. In addition, with the income received, internal training was provided to the Teyit team, travel expenses to events abroad were covered, and a new website was prepared. Click here for more information about Facebook's third-party news verification program.

In 2019, as a result of a collaboration with the Boşlukları Doldur YouTube channel, we created two YouTube programs named "They Lied to Us" and "It Isn't So" and generated a total of ₺75.689,25. We used this resource in the supply and improvement of office equipment.

Teyit received ₺19,900.00 for the application to the Heinrich Böll Stiftung titled "Medyaya neden güvenmiyoruz?" (Why don't we trust the media?) The study, which began in July 2019, investigated the erosion of trust in the mainstream media in Turkey and was published as the fourth episode of the #teyitpedia series on Teyit's YouTube channel.

Teyit received $48,229.74 for the application entitled "Fact-checking workshops for new solutions" to the fund call by the US Embassy in 2019. Factory program, launched in 2018 and continued this year, was launched in September 2019 as part of this support and was organized online after March 2020 due to pandemic.

Teyit received $17,555,00 for the application entitled "Reality Check on Climate Change" to the European Climate Foundation. The activities which started in September 2019 continued until July 2020 and were turned into a 5-part documentary series by identifying misinformation and misleading content about climate change in Turkey. In addition, 7 articles and documentary series within the scope of this support have been published in the microsite created for this project.

Teyit received ₺36,1246.76 for the application entitled “Yanlış bilgiyle mücadele eden aktörleri güçlendirme ve artırma” (Empowering and increasing the number of actors fighting against misinformation) to the Press House Support of Media for Democracy / Democracy for Media European Union program conducted by the Association of Journalists. This support was used to cover one-year rent and dues of Teyit's Ankara office.

Teyit launched a support campaign in February 2018 to reduce the share of funds in the budget and move to a structure where user support weighs. Monthly contributions through Patreon provided $4,994.00 in the first nine months of 2020. We used these contributions to cover the expenses of Teyit's Ankara and Istanbul offices. Thank you to all our supporters for their contribution.

To be among the contributors, please visit www.patreon.com/teyitorg. Active supporters;

Ulaş Yetkin, Ahmet Altun, Onur, Ömer Duru, Ali Hilmi Akbaş, Feyzullah Yalçın, Ibrahim Toughstoneson, Onur G, Seda Koç, Efekan Güven, Merve Nur Okutan, Irmak Baras, Kerem Gündoğan, Şafak Eroğlu, Sanem Güner, Can Sucullu, Başar Akdağ, Alirıza ÇAKIR, Ozben Micoogullari, mustafa hakan şahin, Ismail Ertoy, Damla Özer, Neşe Göl, Hasan Dudu, Hatice Ünsay, Dilara Oguz, Murat Arayıcı, M. Akif HUT, Isik Tuzun, Nihat Yildirim, BAHADIR BATIR, furkan çalışkan, Mesut Zencirci, esin yılmaz, Ali Gorkmen, Ogun Koprulu, Ezgi Yetim Arsava, Adem Onur Miskbay, Serdar Faralyalı, Emrah Göker, Ali Özbek, MEHMET GURHAN TURAN, Engin Coruslu, Refik Sekercioglu, Selim Ok, 4ykut45, Tugba Bayburtluoglu, gonca , Alican Aktürk, Akın Rota, Tolga YILDIRIM, Ali Burak Parım, GÜLAY YÜCEL, Dincay Akcoren, Deniz Oguz, Hasan Zafer Elcik, Celil Bozkurt, Pelin Çiftci, Mark Stencel, Cembora Güngörmüş, İbrahim Nail Acar, Serhat Bilyaz, Barış Bilgen, Aysen Ertur, Derya Sel Bozkurt, Eray Uysal, Erdal Karayazgan, Anonymous, Bulent Can, Ulas, Mustafa Basaran, Halit Kaya, Yusuf Ziya Uyanık, Emre Koyuncu, girisimci muhabbeti, engin polat, yesatalim , Mert Torun, Bekir Alper Paksoy, Tülay Atila, Ali KARABEY, Sukru Oktay Kilic, Bağış Erten, nihan gider, Mustafa İncel, Tamer Aktaş, Evren Akal, Eray Erdoğan, Can Kavanoz, Melike Ceren İnan, Ferhan Ture, Can Çitoğlu, Mustafa Yaşar Soydaş, Kaya Gökçe Dinçyürek, Ahmet Yıldız, Kadir Kutlu, Uğur Cevdet Aykaç, Selkan Kaya, Cinar Gercek, Burak Direk, Özgün Dünyaoğulları, Sam Dubberley, 1 anonymous

Thank you to all our supporters.

Teyit generated ₺17,032.18 via “Salgın Var! Yanlış bilgiye karşı aşı olun” (There’s a pandemic! Get vaccinated against misinformation) campaign which started in December 2019 and ended in January 2020 and was announced on Fongogo. We used the revenue generated via this campaign on the study of claims that may threaten public health in Soner Yalçın's book named "Kara Kutu", and we created a microsite that describes the study and the outcome.

Thank you to all our supporters who have contributed which are listed below:

A.Salim TEKOĞLU, Abdulhalim (Bego) Demir, Abdullah Çadırcı, Ahmet Alphan Sabancı, Ahmet, Bilal Can, Ahmet Fahri Küçük, Ahmet Özcan, Ahmet Ziyal, Ali Co, Ali Karabey, Altan Sancar, Altuğ Gültan, Anıl Bayburtluoglu, Anıl Gündoğdu, Arda Çetin, Arkin Coban, Aslı Gülbay, Aysel Erdem, Aysun Alnıak, Ayşenur Söyler, Bahar Şahinsoy, Barbaros Altuğ, Barış Arslan, Barış Coşkun, Baris Ececelik, Başak Özen, Batuhan Ersun, Berat Can Erdoğan, Berent Güntaç Özdemir, Beril Karabulut, Berivan Elis, Berkalp Özcan, Berrak Uluer, Beşire Korkmaz, Betül Foça, Bilginar Kovancı, Birgul Arslan, Burak Arikan, Burak Avşar, Burak Ömür, Burak Su, Burcu Balkan, Bülent ESEN, Can Çitoğlu, Can Karabulut, Canberk Gürer, Caner Can, Caner Geyik, Ceday Avcı, Cem Mert Dallı, Cembora Güngörmüş, Cengiz Bozkurt, Cigdem Selgur, Cihan kaplan, Cihat Okur, Çağlar Bozkurt, Çiğdem Demir, Dilek Karabulut, Doğanay Karadeniz, Durukan Dudu, Duygu Vatan, Ece Toksabay, Efsun Agirtas, Ekin Yavuz, Ekin Yetim, Ekrem Söyler, Elif Atmaca, Elif Karabulut, Emine Hilal Korucu, Emine Meltem Serdar, Emirhan Emre Kaya, Emre Doğan, Emre Güzel, emre tatli, Engin Aygün, Eray Erdoğan, Ezgi Güldal, Ezgi Smbl, Ezgi Toprak, Fatma Esra Yalçınalp, Firuzan Melike Sümertaş, Fundanur Öztürk, Furkan Kantar, Furkan Ünlütürk, Gizem İğli, Gökberk Metin, Gökçe Dinçyürek, Gözde Şirin, Gülcan Yayla, Gülşen Çetin Çakır, Güneş Merve Akyol, Halil Karabulut, Hamdi Kutlay Velioğlu, Hande Aykun, Hasan Ateş, Hasan Koç, Hatice Fidan, Hikmet Hukumenoglu, Hivda Akkuş, Hülya Aras, Ilim Ugur, Irmak Aksucular, Irmak Alici, İsmail Keskin, İstem Duygu Akalp, İbrahim Acar, İdil Karabulut, İlkan Akgül, İlkem Kayican Dipcin, İpek Yarar, Kaan Karatarla, Kardelen Deniz, Kemal Çelik, Kemal Foça, Kenan Dursun, Kenan Yıldız, Kerem Can Yaşar, Kerem Gundogan, Koray Gültekin Bahar, Kültigin Kağan Akbulut, Lara Güngör, Leyla Sarısoy, Limon Inn Hotel, Mahmut Enes Ağca, Mahmut Tezcan, Mavi Yıldız, mehmet akif, Mehmet Demir, Mehmet Fatih Turan, Mehmet Okur, Mehmet Özkan Taşdoğan, Mehmet Şen, Mehmet UZUN, Melike Yüksel, Melis Baydur Arman, Mert Can Yılmaz, Mert Torun, Merve Elmacı, Merve Kavas, Merve Nur Okutan, Mesut Keskin, Mirgun Cabas, Muhammet Furkan Üzümcü, Muhammet Tarık Arslan, Mustafa Özdil, N.Barış Okur, Naci Kahraman, Necip Fazıl Aras, Nihal Gümülcine, Nihat Okur, Nukte Goc, Oğuzhan Parlakkılıç, Ömer Gürkaynak, Onat Başar, Onur Babuş, Onur Şahin, Orkun Aşa, Öykum Huma Keskin, Ögeday Uçurum, Öykü Göğer, Özge Esen, Özge Özdemir, Özgün Ozan Nacitarhan, Özgür Damar, Özgür Esen, Özlem Koşar, pelin atakan, Pelin Baykan, Pınar D, Pınar İlkiz & Erkan Demir, Pinar Koyuncu, Pinar Okur, Razan Aykac, Sanem Bahçekapılı, Sarphan Uzunoğlu, Savas Irez, Seçil İskit, Seçil Türkkan, Selin Önen, Selin Süter, Sema Kansoy, Semih Boyaci, Serdar Başeğmez, Serhat Korkmaz, Serkan Arıkan, Sevil Yıldız, Sibel Tamer, Simay Dağ, Sinan Burak Avcı, Sinefin Gış, Sinem Güravşar Gökçe, Suleyman Ayhan, Süleyman Altınışık, Süleyman Emre Özözen, Tayfun Fergana, Timur Tandoğar, Tolga Mırmırık, Tugba Bayburtluoglu, Tuna Karabulut, Tunç Kuyucu, Turgut ÇELİK, Tülay Uyanık, Tülin Akın, Türkay Yıldız, Ufuk Utaş, Uğurcan Akın, Ulaş Sancak, Ulukan Foça, Umutcan Duman, Utku Şen, volkan kısa, Yahya Koç, Yahya Uyanık, Yashar Kardar, Yiğit Aksakoğlu, Yiğit Timur, Zafer Elcik, Zeki Seskir, Zeynep Meydanoglu, Zeynep Uyanık ve 26 anonymous.

Thank you to all our supporters.

With the emergence of the Covid-19 outbreak in Turkey, in March 2020, we started a newsletter called Covid-19 Post so that our users could access fact-checked information about the pandemic. We generated revenue of ₺8,209.62 with this campaign thanks to subscribers who supported this 12-thousand-subscriber newsletter through the Kreosus platform. The proceeds were used for the expenses of freelance journalists, translators, and graphic designers who contributed to the preparation of the newsletter. Thank you to all our supporters for their contribution.

Supporters of Covid-19 Post via Kreosus;

Ender Ahmet Yurt, Anton Semchenko, Ayşe Beyazova, Duygu Vatan, Nihan Çakır, Burak Artut, Ekin Aytaç, Bayram Bozbeyli, Şeyma Sarıbekiroğlu, Ahmet Altun, Çağrı Sarıgöz, Erhan Yüksel, Semih Bolel, Onur Akyüz, Ömer Kağan Biçer, Can Daglik, Baran Şengül, Gonca Açıkalın, Cansın Hazan Bayrak, Bozkurt Erdem Belovacıklı, Ayşenur Müslümanoğlu, Abdulkadir Yorulmaz, A.Duygu Aktaş, Nurcan Akad, İrem Soydal, Ayberk Berkay, Aysun Özhallaç, Melike Alnıak, Basak Doga Temur, Ahmet Alvar, Aysun Gökdemir, Elif Ozoktay, Pınar Ilkiz, Ber Ma, Burcu Ceylan, Sebnem Kabadayi, Barış Kamil SALTIK, Mr. Webuy, Cem Eligüzel, Ceyda Özdemir Ertan, Evren İnce, Özlem Duyan, Ekrem Söyler, Tütengül Küçüker, Üstün Tekkul, Ehg G, Esra Çınar, Meryema Yalcin, Elif Uçar, Ulaş Sancak, Bora Tekay, Soner Canko, Hüseyin Bekdoğan, Sema Tekin, Lale Yolageldi, Aydın Kaynarca, Alper Şenkalfa, Sevil Yıldız, İstem D Akalp, Umut Yıldırım, Serhat Yalavuz, Furkan Burak Öztürk, Pelin Atakan, İpek Şencan

Teyit signed an agreement with Facebook in May 2018 and became Facebook's third-party news verification organization in Turkey. As a part of this collaboration, Teyit flags false news on Facebook and redirects them to the analysis pieces published on the Teyit website, and Facebook restricts these posts' visibility for them to reach fewer users. With the new agreement signed in May 2020, the program was extended and Teyit started providing both Turkish and Azerbaijani fact-checks. Teyit received $294,400.00 in the first nine months of 2020 via the collaboration with Facebook. With the income acquired, three editors, one of who helps the publications in Azerbaijani, one community manager, one writer, and one training manager were hired.

The collaboration with Boşlukları Doldur YouTube channel, which started in 2019, continued in the first few months of 2020 and Teyit generated ₺110,49.72 in 2020 with this collaboration. This was used to cover equipment and human resources expenses of YouTube programs titled “They Lied to Us” and “It isn't So.”

In 2020, through our collaboration with BluTV Communications and Digital Broadcasting Services, Teyit's mini-documentary series #teyitpedia and Urban Legends published on YouTube were re-released on BluTV. Teyit generated ₺1,932.84 from these re-releases.

In the second half of 2020, we received self-resource support from Civil Rights Defenders, a Sweden-based human rights organization, to support us for a year. With the support of $50,350.00 received from the institution as part of the activities carried out in the last six months of 2020, we took action to create a social impact that would spark the system transformation. We strengthened Teyit's human resources and equipment capacity and organized individual and community activities.

Teyit once again started creating content for Modyo TV, which broadcasts on 7 thousand 600 screens in Istanbul's subway, metrobus, bus, and ferry lines. We received $14,989.00 via International Fact-checking Network's Fact-checking Innovation Initiative to expand this project to the other major cities in Turkey. A part of the income was transferred to human resources for the preparation of content to be published on screens and the preparation of documents necessary for the collaborations with municipalities and the conclusion of agreements. In addition, Teyit qualified for applying to the IFCN Match program by reaching the goal of more than 150 supporters for "Salgın Var! Yanlış bilgiye karşı aşı olun" (There’s a pandemic! Get vaccinated against misinformation) crowdfunding campaign and received $3,168.00 from the program. In addition, Teyit received $2,477.00 as a part of Coronavirus Fact-checking Alliance, a union of organizations that conduct fact-checking activities about the coronavirus, that came together in the leadership of IFCN and Poynter. With this income, we covered the expenses of freelance fact-checkers who contribute to Teyit.

In 2020, Covid-19 Post was not only supported by individuals but also institutions. Heinrich Böll Stiftung Association's Turkey office granted ₺32,368.69 to Teyit for the expenses of editors, translators, and graphic designers for the newsletter. Heinrich Böll Stiftung's Turkey office also supported the "Measuring the Impact of Teyit" study, which Teyit conducted in collaboration with KONDA to measure the impact of Teyit and received ₺80,599.99 for the field expenses of the study.