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Katharina Zwins is an editor at the Austrian news magazine profil and co-founder of the profil fact checking project faktiv. She studied law in Vienna and Paris, focusing on European law and fundamental- and human rights. After working as a lawyer in Austria and abroad for several years - including at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg, the University of Vienna and the Federal Ministry of the Interior - Zwins has been working as a journalist in Vienna since 2019. For profil, she tracks down false statements profesionally. From ministers, youth state secretaries and conspiracy-theoretical online media.