Devi Mallal is a founding member and the Media and Research Lead at RMIT ABC Fact Check. She is also an Associate Director of RMIT FactLab. Devi has been responsible for devising and implementing media and research strategies for both entities since their inception. Aware of the digital news ecosystem in which the two units operate and the role of social media in allowing misinformation to spread at unprecedented volumes, Devi’s focus is ensuring that the fact checking practitioners have access to state-of-the-art tools and technologies that will allow them to scale their efforts to meet the demand, ensuring their important work reaches the broadest possible audience.

In the lead up to the 2022 Federal Election, Devi co-directed the Mosaic Project, a collaboration between RMIT FactLab, the Judith Neilson Institute for Ideas and Global leaders in misinformation detection, the Institute for Strategic Dialogue. Currently, Devi is working with the UK’s Full Fact to migrate their automated claim detection software Full Fact AI to RMIT ABC Fact Check and RMIT FactLab, in what will be the software’s first trial in the Asia-Pacific region.