Robot Labot

LaBot is a journalistic robot or chatbot that distributes political information through Telegram and Facebook Messenger. News, graphics, survey analysis and other data are sent to those who subscribe through these channels. In 2017 they launched the journalistic chatbot of the same name, which distributes content through Telegram and Facebook Messenger, in addition to its web version. Two years later, they created the chatbot Chequea LaBot, to teach how to verify information. In 2020 they also published LaBot Documenta, a data and investigative journalism project that follows up on complaints about cases of human rights violations that occurred in Chile as a result of the social outbreak. In 2021, to follow the constitutional discussion, they created the LaBot Constituciónnte newsletter that publishes a weekly newsletter on how the new Constitution is written. Additionally, LaBot He has participated in projects of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), including The Implant Files. The foundation was created by journalists Francisca Skoknic, Andrea Insunza and Paula Molina, who left it after the first cycle. Insunza and Skoknic are also editors of LaBot.