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Daisuke Furuta

Daisuke Furuta (USJLP 2022, 2023) is the editor-in-chief of the Japan Fact-check Center(JFC). He started his career at The Asahi Shimbun and later moved to BuzzFeed, where he served as the founder and editor-in-chief of its Japan edition. In 2019, he left BuzzFeed and began working as a freelance journalist while helping news media with digital transformation. He worked for Google News Lab from 2020 to 2022 as a teaching fellow and was then named the first editor-in-chief of JFC in October 2022. He is a board member of the Digital Journalist Education Institute(D-JEDI).