The Global Digital Forum in Nizhny Novgorod was a first step towards elaborating a system of fact-checking that is global, of course a Russian contribution, but a global fact-checking network, going beyond fake news and establishing an alternative media environment with lots of input from several nations of the Global South, and sooner or later taking all that to the BRICS table”, Pepe Escobar, a geopolitical analyst, told Sputnik.