Fact checks
Here I am collecting different sources about fact checks. Let's find the right information in this turbulent sea of daily news.
Collection by Mario Clemente
The Washington Post
Seeing isn’t always believing: Google starts fact-checking images
2020-06-22 · Google will label some images with a fact-check label, expanding the feature from search and YouTube.
Judd Legum
Facebook creates fact-checking exemption for climate deniers
6 min read · 2020-06-24 · This is a special joint edition of Popular Information and HEATED, a climate newsletter by journalist Emily Atkin. HEATED is a must-read for anyone who cares about the future of the planet earth. Sign…
The New Yorker
Daniel Radcliffe and the Art of the Fact-Check
4 min read · From 2018 · Researching his role in “The Lifespan of a Fact,” the actor embeds in The New Yorker’s fact-checking department.
medium.com
Getting it right: here’s how to improve your fact-checking
5 min read · From 2017 · Fact-checking works. Alexios Mantzarlis from the International Fact-Checking Network at Poynter gave us some advice.
Poynter
We're launching a podcast about fact-checking and misinformation
2 min read · From 2018 · Starting today, we’re tackling some of the biggest questions facing fact-checking in audio form.
Nieman Lab
Fact-checking can’t do much when people’s “dueling facts” are driven by values instead of knowledge » Nieman Journalism Lab
4 min read · From 2019
factcheckingday.com
International Fact-Checking Day
1 min read · From 2017 · International Fact-Checking Day is promoted by the International Fact-Checking Network at Poynter in partnership with fact-checking organizations around the world. International Fact-Checking Day is…
CJR
The Rise and Fall of Facts
5 min read · 2019-12-06 · In his 1964 Harper’s Magazine article on fact-checking, “There Are 00 Trees in Russia,” Otto Friedrich related the story of an unnamed magazine correspondent who had been assigned a profile of…
The Nation
Democracy Dies From Bad Fact Checking
4 min read · From 2019 · The Washington Post is feeding into Trump’s agenda by turning fact checking into an ideological weapon.
Poynter
Is it time to completely rethink fact-checking?
7 min read · From 2017 · The basic format of political fact-checking is identical the world over: Start from a widely circulated claim by a public figure, then rate the truthfulness of its objectively verifiable components…
Nieman Lab
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales launches Wikitribune, a large-scale attempt to combat fake news
4 min read · From 2017 · The crowd-funded news platform aims to combat fake news by combining professional journalism with volunteer fact checking: "news by the people and for the people."
The Wall Street Journal
Facebook to Exempt Opinion and Satire From Fact-Checking
2019-09-30 · Facebook plans to allow opinion pieces and satire to be exempted from its fact-checking program, according to people familiar with the matter, as the social-media giant grapples with how to stop the…
Poynter
Snopes pulls out of its fact-checking partnership with Facebook
3 min read · From 2019 · Visit the post for more.
TechCrunch
Snopes and AP stop fact checking for Facebook
5 min read · From 2019 · Two of Facebook's four fact-checking partners in the U.S. have left the program as of the beginning of this year: Snopes, which recently rebuffed reports that its relationship with Facebook was strained, and the Associated Press. Both confirmed they are leaving the program, but left the possibility of future collaboration open.
Engadget
WhatsApp and WHO create a chatbot to share reliable coronavirus info
1 min read · 2020-03-20 · Yesterday, WhatsApp unveiled a coronavirus fact-checking hub in partnership with the WHO, UNICEF and the United Nations Development Programme. That's intended to share the latest news and advice…
The Verge
Snopes forced to scale back fact-checking in face of overwhelming COVID-19 misinformation
2 min read · 2020-03-24
