Baybars has launched fact-checking organizations and helped many get on their feet during his tenure at the International Fact-Checking Network at Poynter Institute. He trained journalists and fact-checkers to onboard them in the fight against mis-disinformation.
Baybars organized in-person and hybrid conferences and training programs in South Africa, India, Korea, Singapore, Turkey, Israel, Colombia, Norway, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, the United States, and many more countries, bringing together thousands of practitioners.
Baybars joined Logically Facts in late 2022 to explore and implement meaningful solutions driven by tech and human expertise to tackle the harms associated with mis-disinformation at speed and scale.
Baybars Orsek is the VP of Fact-Checking at Logically and the Managing Director of its independent subsidiary, Logically Facts. Before joining Logically, he was the director of the International Fact-Checking Network and international programming at the Poynter Institute between 2019 and 2022.
In his previous career in Turkey, Baybars founded Turkey’s first fact-checking project, Dogruluk Payi (Share of Truth) in 2014, and Turkey's open data platform Veri Kaynagi (Data Source), as the founding chairman of Turkey’s leading media non-profit Izlemedeyiz (On Watch).
He frequently comments on fact-checking, media sustainability, and freedom of the press for international media outlets. He has been published and featured at outlets such as but not limited to the Washington Post, Politico, CNN, NHK World-Japan, Columbia Journalism Review, Nieman Lab, The Hill, the Indian Express, Poynter and many others while have done briefings for the U.S. State Department and various international organizations.
Baybars hosts the Speed and Scale Podcast, where he hosts experts and practitioners worldwide to discuss mis-disinformation and how we can tackle its harms as a community.
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