Choo Ching Yee is the Southeast Asia Teaching Fellow for the Google News Initiative. Previously, she was the first fact-checker hired by the French news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) to focus on fact-checking misinformation in Malaysia and Singapore, and was also the Malaysia correspondent for Nikkei Asia. She has more than a decade of experience as a journalist, with a personal interest in open source intelligence techniques, press freedom and the business of media.