France Médias Monde and CFI taking part in the Diplomacy Factory on 5 and 6 September 2025

International journalism, combating disinformation and developing independent media

Organised by the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs (MEAE) and the Sorbonne Nouvelle University, this public event aims to explore the major challenges for France's international actions. 
On this occasion, France Médias Monde and CFI will be inviting the audience to a series of screenings, workshops, meetings, and a panel discussion on the importance of professional and independent field journalism, which combats information manipulation and fake news on a global scale. A meeting hub is also planned to allow young people to interact with the group's journalists about their profession and to better understand French initiatives in support of media development across the world.

Through its media outlets RFI, France 24 and Monte Carlo Doualiya, as well as its pure-player offerings ENTR, and InfoMigrants, the France Médias Monde group provides information to 254 million people each week via radio, television, and digital platforms, in 21 languages. The group has more than 125 million subscribers on social media and recorded nearly 4 billion video views online last year. 
Journalists from the group and its network of correspondents provide listeners, viewers and internet users with independent, on-the-ground information that is open to the world and to the diversity of cultures and viewpoints, through news bulletins, reports, magazines and debates. Its employees represent more than 60 nationalities.

CFI, the subsidiary of the group working on the development of media worldwide in connection with civil societies, is contributing to the fight for freedom of expression, press freedom, independence and media pluralism, which are pillars of democracy. Through its initiatives, it carries the voice of journalists from all four corners of the globe and, in France, through its program Voices in Exile. 
CFI also actively contributes, particularly through its training programmes, to engagement in the fight against disinformation, which constitutes one of the major challenges of our time.

FMM and CFI at the Diplomacy Factory: the programme

Round table:What responses can be provided to counter disinformation strategies?
Friday 5 September, 11:30 - 13:00
Moderation: Steven Jambot, producer of the show L'atelier des médias on RFI
Participants:
• Anne-Sophie Dhiver, deputy director of Viginum
• Laurent Giacobino, director for the Mediterranean/Asia at CFI
• Christophe Lemoine, director, spokesperson for the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs
• Cécile Mégie, director of cross-cutting editorial strategies and cooperation at France Médias Monde
• Valdez Onanina, editor-in-chief of Africa Check (website)

A meeting hub, hosted by France Médias Monde and CFI
At this stand, France Médias Monde and CFI will offer several interactive workshops and meetings inviting participants to better understand the profession of journalism and to discover the behind-the-scenes of international news production.
Also on the agenda: the challenges posed by artificial intelligence, disinformation and exile. Documentaries and podcasts produced by journalists from France 24, RFI, and Monte Carlo Douliya will also be available at the stand.

Programme:
Friday, 5 September
• 10:30: Meeting with Afghan journalist Mursal Sayas, presentation and signing of her book Who Will Hear Our Cries?
• 11:30: Nathan Gallo, journalist for France 24's Observers, on fact-checking and combating information manipulation
• 13:00: Julie Dungelhoeff, senior correspondent for France 24, on field reporting
• 14:30: Antoine Cormery, director of the France Médias Monde Academy, on fact-checking training in Syria
• 15:30: Valdez Onania, editor-in-chief of Africa Check, on the fight against disinformation
• 16:00: Vincent Roux, director of AI integration and editorial innovation at France 24, Journalists in the Face of AI: Threat or Revolution?

Saturday, 6 September 
• 10:00: Meeting with an investigative journalist in exile in France
• 11:00: Gregory Genevrier, presenter of the RFI column "The underside of disinformation"
• Throughout the afternoon, there will be screenings of a selection of documentaries and investigations from RFI and France 24:
> Syria between real abuses and disinformation campaigns
> Investigation into the SDA: the underbelly of a Russian disinformation company, dangers and limitations
> Russian interference; a tool for long-term geopolitical ambitions
> Putin's sharpshooters: Investigation into these Africans in the ranks of the Russian Army in Ukraine
> Your faces belong to us: the dangers of facial recognition
> On the road to Damascus, France 24 alongside Syrian refugees celebrating the fall of the regime
> Syria: France 24 in the heart of Maher al-Assad's elite army districts